Albert Marrin has apparently written quite a few history books, mostly on American wars. But I placed a hold on works about mankind’s relationship with rats and another about the Triangle Shirtwaist fire after finishing this interesting book about the 1918 Spanish Flu. The man definitely has some varied interests. “In the United States, influenza death rates were so high that the average life span fell by twelve years, from fifty-one in 1917 to thirty-nine in 1918. If you were a “doughboy”—slang for an American […]