Until recently, the idea of a pandemic took most people’s imagination to Hollywood thrillers and the Black Plague that ravaged medieval Europe. But the most devastating plague to ever strike the human race took place a century ago, during the First World War. This story contains many lessons for how—and how not—to handle a pandemic. Barry’s tie-ins to our own day (most recent edition published in 2018) have an eerily prophetic ring to them in light of the corona virus that has recently swept the globe.