Table of Contents
Author's preface vii
Prologue: The month before war viii
Part 1 The Second Monday in March: Origin Theories and the Trail Left By Disease
Chapter 1 Circling Patient Zero 2
Chapter 2 Three Waves of Death 14
Part 2 Europe, America and the Alliances of War: The Effect of the Pandemic on the Countries in Conflict
Chapter 3 'In flew Enza': How the European Allies were affected by flu 26
Chapter 4 The Naples Soldier: Flu and class divisions in the neutral territories 38
Chapter 5 School's Out in Vienna: The pandemic behind enemy lines 48
Chapter 6 The Edge of War: How flu unfolded in the Americas 56
Part 3 Movement, Trade and the Victims of Colonisation: Exposure to the Virus Beyond Europe
Chapter 7 Under the Desert Sun: Influenza in Africa and the Middle East 68
Chapter 8 The Strange One: The epidemic in colonial India 79
Chapter 9 Closed For Business: Influenza in the South Pacific 88
Chapter 10 Closing the Loop: Outbreak and immunity in South East Asia 98
Part 4 Secrets in the Snow: What Have We Learned in 100 Years?
Chapter 11 Peace In the Time of Influenza: The impact of the pandemic on the peace process and medicine from 1919 106
Epilogue Northern Exposure: What the bodies in the snow tell us about the next pandemic 117
About the author 123
Notes 124
Bibliography 128
Index 129