"Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918"by Gina Kolata.

A Critical Book Review of Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 And the Search for the Virus That Caused It By Gina Kolata Farrar, Straus and Giroux 19 Union Square West, New York 10003 ISBN: 0-7838-9019-2 *Note* The eBook version ( ISBN: B000056WKX ) was used for this paper. For History 233 Dr. Terry Chapman Medicine Hat College Winter, 2003 Due: Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 8:00 a.m. Although some estimates run as high as 100 million, at …

…took me a while to figure out if I was going to give it a good review. I enjoyed the book, but I thought that it could have been a lot better, mainly by eliminating a lot of the 'fluff'. Kolata did, however, accomplish her mission, and seeing as how I had a hard time putting the book down after reading the first page, I decided that I had to give it a good review.