1918 LA GRANDE EPIDEMIA

What do Walt Disney, Egon Schiele, Edvard Munch and Franklin D. Roosevelt have in common? Their lives were affected by the contagious disease that ravaged Europe between 1918 and 1920: the Spanish Flu.

Disney and Munch survived. Others succumbed: but the Great Influenza also changed the destiny of many great women and men and the course of history. In an exciting "What if?" experiment, the author asks: what would have happened if Woodrow Wilson hadn't been under the spell of the flu during the negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles? Or, would Stalin have come to power if Sverdlov hadn't died of the flu? Chiaberge, journalist and author, has achieved to transform the history of the biggest pandemic in recent European history into a fascinating crossroads of fifteen lives who shaped the 20th Century.