The Great Influenza Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee for Roman étranger and Traduction (2010) Either we leap – or

Either we leap – or we sink

In breathtaking detail he describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society was turned upside-down in a cataclysm whose echoes are still felt to this day

Her childhood was a blur of new cities and assumed identities

English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism

The Great Influenza Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee for Roman étranger and Traduction (2010) Either we leap – orIn the winter of 1918, at the height of WWI, historys most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic