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Year of the Flu: A World War I Medical Thriller Kindle Edition

by Millys Altman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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This is the true story of a monster killer, the 1918 flu pandemic, and how a young doctor fought to keep an entire village alive.

Holbert Nixon, fresh out of medical school, signed with a coal company to care for the several hundred immigrants who lived in Revere in western Pennsylvania and worked in the Revere mine.

˃˃˃ He was eager to begin his first practice, but it turned out to be more than he bargained for.

In just two years, in September, 1918, the entire village was sickened in rapid succession in the flu pandemic that killed quickly and indiscriminately throughout the world. It was wartime, and Nixon was unable to find help.,

˃˃˃ This story is an up close and personal account of what it was like to be sick with the HINI type virus in 1918.

It is a tale of a dedicated doctor whose selflessness, compassion and courage helped the villagers survive in the pandemic that killed more people in a year than the Black Death killed in a century..

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0757CWP2S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ self; 1st edition (November 15, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 15, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1832 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 56 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 197582654X
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Millys N. Altman

Millys N. Altman

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I am a member of the Greatest Generation and proud to admit it, even though it puts me in the top tier of many statistics. My architect husband and I raised three sons, and it was not until their teen years that I began to write. I wrote about what I knew.

The boys loved cars (their father's influence). Two of them became professional sports car drivers. It was a sport totally foreign and hair-raising to me, but I went with it. From this experience, I wrote my first book, Racing in Her Blood.

For my next effort, I jogged my long memory for stories of the flamboyant lives of the millionaires in our town who prospered when coal became king in the late nineteenth century. The result was an historical mystery, "Innocent Strangers."

Memory again has given me my next book, The Year of the Flu, which will be published in the fall, 2017.

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The misnamed Spanish Flu killed my grandfather who lived in or near Dawson, PA at the time. My father's siblings and mother were in complete disarray causing the family to "break up" for more than a year. My father, the eldest of the children at just 10, never spoke much about it nor did his mother. Like many young children I asked many questions about all of that but soon learned that it was a topic not to be discussed. That taboo remained in place for all time--or until I "met" Millys Altman. I read The Year of the Flu quickly but "read" isn't the correct word. The story sits in my head like a conversation with Mrs. Altman. I noted one reviewer thought it a little more expensive than it should be. Frankly it saved me some money. Had I known that Mrs. Altman was very much alive and well 20 years ago when I left Fayette County I would have begged her to be my guest for dinner at a time and place of her choosing if she would just tell me what she could from memory, a very personal memory, about that year in a coal patch. Even writing that makes me hear her telling me that story even though I've never heard her voice. And for me, her memory of her father's experience in that coal patch was important to me for another reason. Her father, though I don't remember it, was the first person I met. He delivered me at the Uniontown Hospital and gave me his autograph on my birth certificate. If I have the chance I'll ask Mrs. Altman to dinner so I can ask her those questions that have been popping into my head for most of my 81 years.
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Billy Ray Chitwood
5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Look At the 1918 Flu
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2018
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Although short the story gave an excellent view of what people went through. I inherited letters (about 700 pages) from my Great Aunt Rosalie O'Donnell written between Sept 1918 - Dec 1921 while she was overseas serving in the Red Cross. The letters were hers and her two sisters. During the time frame of the Flu all three wrote about the deaths and effects of the flu. Anyone interested in studying it would find them of great value (The World After WW1, 1918-1921). The descriptions Millys gave of the onset, progression and ages most affected were spot on. My Great Aunt Celeste (St Louis) described the death of a friend's young daughter, the death of friends - going to work fine in the morning and dead by noon. The closures of businesses, schools, churches along with nailing the windows of trolley cars. On top of WW1 it was a hard time that the world went through. Julie Chitwood
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Lily Mack
4.0 out of 5 stars Could we experience this again?
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2018
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Not a page turner by any stretch of the imagination ... but an interesting, educational take on a true piece of history. I always enjoy historical works as a chance to learn of events that my ancestors may have been a part of ... or that may have changed the world ... for better or worse. This one makes me wonder if and when the next wave will hit as these 'bugs' become resistant to antibiotics ... or is it on its way, with an increase in recent 'flu' deaths in 2018?
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robin
3.0 out of 5 stars Short account of the 1918 flu epidemic
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2022
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Dr. Nixon was working in a small mining town named Revere when the Spanish flu came calling. This is his story of how he dealt with over 100 very ill patients, 10 premature babies, and trouble in his own family.

I liked the book, but I was expecting a longer and more detailed account.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The 1918 flu pandemic
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2020
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I knew nothing of this pandemic before reading this book, except that it happened and killed millions . My Grandfather was born in 1887, and my Grandmother in 1910 in Maine, however they never spoke of it..Maine also had deaths..I wonder why it was never mentioned?

I learned a lot from this book, which was a quick and easy read. What a lonely job this Dr had all by himself with no help and no answers in a community of immigrants who didn't speak the same language..it had to be very difficult..if you haven't read anything about this pandemic, this is a good place to start.
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Nancy Lee Null
4.0 out of 5 stars A "Company Town" In Peril
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2017
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So relevant, as the 100th anniversary of this tragic pandemic is coming next year! You will learn so much reading this book--not just about the flu, but also about life in the mining towns of southwestern Pennsylvania at the time. The author provides wonderful details about the people, their customs, and their challenges.
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Mike K
5.0 out of 5 stars Spanish Influenza
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2022
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Inside look of a small town doctor in a Coal Mining community in Ohio dealing with the outbreak of the 1918 Spanish Influenza. Very revealing about devastation caused by the Flu virus in America!
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Goldwave
3.0 out of 5 stars About a doctor's experience
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2018
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This is likely of interest mainly to historians with an interest in the subject. It would also make a good resource for students studying the subject or who need to write a report along this line. While it's not particularly lengthy or pithy, it's easy to extrapolate the stress, fear, grief and horror from what is revealed. We learn how the epidemic affected one particular (and representative) town, the doctor, his wife, and the surrounding regions.
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S. Carmichael
5.0 out of 5 stars Short read and well worth it
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2023
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This is a great historical lesson in the age of CoVid-19. Worth the time to read and reflect on lessons learned.
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