Behind the Lines

Episode 2: Pandemic

February 13, 2021 Barbara Harrison & Andrew Carroll Season 1 Episode 2
Behind the Lines
Episode 2: Pandemic
Show Notes

This episode features letters written during and about the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918 and 1919, especially as it affected World War I. (More American troops were killed in WWI by the disease than in combat.) The podcast ends with a powerful letter by a New York doctor from the current (2020) pandemic to show the parallels with the one that occurred a century ago.