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  1. How Churchill Dodged the Flu Pandemic, and Others Were Not So …

    • One prominent leader who managed to escape from the flu Winston Churchill, Roosevelt’s future coalition partner in the next world war. Influenza was all around Churchill. As Minister of Munitions in the … See more

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    As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic and the death toll steadily mounts, a … See more

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    Historical Precedents

    The Greek general and historian Thucydidesaddressed these questions in his famous history of the Peloponnesian War. Writing almost 2500 years ago, Thucydide… See more

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    “Caged Lion”

    On the other side of the trenches, the spreading flu pandemic battered the American army mobilizing at home and deploying overseas. Almost as many American s… See more

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    “He Never Was The Same”

    President Woodrow Wilson became seriously ill with the flu in April 1918. His doctor Cary Graysonrecorded Wilson’s “violent paroxysms of coughing, which were so severe a… See more

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  1. The Influenza, 1890 - National Churchill Museum

  2. Leaders and Illness: How Winston Churchill Dodged …

    WEBApr 3, 2020 · What if the flu had taken Franklin D. Roosevelt as one of its victims in 1918, or if a burst appendix had killed Winston Churchill in 1922?

  3. Churchill and the Flu | Brunswick Group

    WEBMar 23, 2020 · The only poem that Winston Churchill ever wrote in his long life was entitled Influenza. It was about the epidemic that was ravaging Asia and Europe and which ultimately killed one million people between …

  4. The Influenza - Wikisource, the free online library

  5. Ten Famous People Who Survived the 1918 Flu | Smithsonian

  6. Dal nostro inviato Winston Churchill - La Stampa

  7. Churchill’s flu poem | The BMJ

  8. Review of ‘Winston Churchill’s Illnesses 1886 -1965’