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Cecil Woodham Smith was also the author of The Reason Why ( a biography of the figures involved in the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, as well as a bestselling biography of Florence Nightingale.
Condition - Very good - Binding tight, light dustmarking to the page block.
The dustjacket shows creasing from having been folded back on itself on the inner front flap. Otherwise unmarked. Edegewear to the covers, , creasing to top edge of spine, small chipped are of paper loss (about 1 cm) to upper edge to back cover. the dustjacket is now in a clear pastic removable Herma over.
The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British 'obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance' - and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire 'solutions' - largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive narrative account.
'A moving and terrible book. It combines great literary power with great learning. It explains much in modern Ireland - and in modern America' D.W. Brogan. ( from the blurb)
