He also warned us that it could happen again. Well, Albert Marrin decided it was time that we learn something about the 1918 flu by writing Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918, and in the process he also teaches us about other pandemics in world history and what set up the circumstances for the most dreadful of them all in 1918. There has never been a more dreadful disease in all of human history and you barely know anything about it, right? The dreadful thing was the 1918 influenza. whatever the topic, it is the most dreadful thing you've ever heard about. Have you ever seen any sentence with three verys in it? Before one even gets started reading the book they know one thing for sure. Before I get started on this review I'd like to encourage you to stop and think about the title for a minute.
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