ABSTRACT
The second decade of the twentieth century was not a good time to be a young adult – the Great War and the influenza pandemic came to end millions of lives and blight hundreds of millions more. In British (as well as French and German1) history and literature, the story of the war’s ‘lost generation’ is well-known. But another story, not as well-known, is that of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic. This is a story of as many as one billion ill and 100 million dead.
