Albert Marrin
Born
in New York, The United States
July 24, 1936
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Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
6 editions
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2018
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Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
11 editions
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published
2011
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Oh Rats! The Story of Rats and People
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3 editions
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2006
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Years of Dust
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2009
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Stalin: Russia's Man of Steel
4 editions
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published
1988
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The Yanks Are Coming: The United States In The First World War
3 editions
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published
1986
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Hitler
3 editions
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1987
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Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives
7 editions
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published
2012
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A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown's War Against Slavery
5 editions
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2014
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Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster: The Discovery of the Smallpox Vaccine
3 editions
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2006
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“No other disease, no war, no natural disaster, no famine comes close to the great pandemic. In the space of eighteen months in 1918–1919, about 500 million people, one-third of the human race at the time, came down with influenza. The exact total of lives lost will never be known. An early estimate, made in 1920, claimed 21.5 million died worldwide. Since then, researchers have been continually raising the number as they find new information. Today, the best estimate of flu deaths in 1918–1919 is between 50 million and 100 million worldwide, and probably closer to the latter figure. 7”
― Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
― Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
“By the fall of 1918, it was clear that a nation's prosperity, even its very survival, depended on securing a safe, abundant supply of cheap oil.”
― Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives
― Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives
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