Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries Japanese History promoting and manipulating the election

promoting and manipulating the election of King Faisal to the throne and helping to draw the borders of the fledgling state

and his narrative is accompanied by over 50 photos

local leaders and their forces were not simply the puppets of the Great Powers in any straightforward sense

conducted 183 interviews with British World War I veterans

Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries Japanese History promoting and manipulating the electionDescription by Molly Caldwell Crosby Paperback In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread worldwide, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it disappeared as suddenly as it arrived. Asleep, set in 1920s and '30s New York, follows a group of