Excellent history of the “mother of all pandemics,” Spanish Influenza. 

Crosby definitely spends a little more time on WWI politics than I think was strictly necessary, but it did add some variety to the information. Near the end, he also really got into the weeds on how pigs gets swine flu and, I gotta say, that was disgusting and not something I needed to know. The connections between Spanish Flu and Swine Flu were exceptionally compelling though.