The expendable soldiers of the 1918 pandemic call out to the expendable soldiers of 2020
billytownsend.substack.com
One of the important subplots of my book Age of Barbarity: the Forgotten Fight for the Soul of Florida is the story of black soldiers in World War I, specifically from Palatka, Florida. Their experience intersected crucially with the earliest moments of the deadliest outbreak of the 1918 flu pandemic.
The expendable soldiers of the 1918 pandemic call out to the expendable soldiers of 2020
The expendable soldiers of the 1918 pandemic…
The expendable soldiers of the 1918 pandemic call out to the expendable soldiers of 2020
One of the important subplots of my book Age of Barbarity: the Forgotten Fight for the Soul of Florida is the story of black soldiers in World War I, specifically from Palatka, Florida. Their experience intersected crucially with the earliest moments of the deadliest outbreak of the 1918 flu pandemic.