Pale rider the spanish flu of 19185/30/2023 ![]() We do love a good centenary and it would soon be the Great War’s turn, right up until 2018. Global warming had since shrunk the glacier in which they had been entombed, in a crevasse, and their remains had melted out the previous year. There were two of them, and they lost their lives in a little-known episode of the conflict called the White War, in which Italians and Austro-Hungarians struggled for control of those mountains at altitudes exceeding 3,000 metres. I had just attended what was surely the last funeral for unknown soldiers fallen in that war. In September 2013, I came home from the Italian Alps and asked my husband if he thought that, as a science journalist, I’d be covering the science of the First World War for the next four years. ![]() ![]() By Laura Spinney, Science Writer and Author Drawing on the latest research, this new book narrates a catastrophe that changed humanity for decades to come - and yet, is largely accounted as a footnote to World War I ![]()
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