In the spring of 1918, World War I had already been raging for four years when the Spanish flu pandemic started its deadly sweep, eventually infecting 500 million, or about a third of the world’s ...
The woman behind the gun. The egret now serves as the Audubon Society’s emblem, and Bach and Olson point to the naturalist’s famed watercolor portraits of migratory birds as an example of how to ...
THE witty title is promptly construed by the subtitle, ‘A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-1939,’ and this in turn by the opening sentence: ‘This book is intended to serve as a reliable record of ...