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Queen Marie, the victim of the Spanish flu: “I was a changed being, miserable and weak, brought to the brink of despair”
At the end of the First World War, the world lived through another tragedy: the Spanish flu. It seems that the first case was recorded in March 1918, in the United States, and from there the virus spread rapidly throughout the world. Statistics show that at the end of...
General Grigorescu, the hero of Mărășești, slain not by bullets, but by the Spanish flu
General Eremia Grigorescu is to this day one of the greatest commanders of the Romanian army. For his crucial role in the victories on the Romanian Front in the summer of 1917 he was decorated, towards the end of the war (October-November 1918), with the “Order of...