This book is about the Irish Potato Famine of 1840. It is a moving, terrible historical account of the period in Irish history when the people were starving because of the famine. It caused the death of one million peasants in Ireland and the migration of several hundred thousand Irish citizens to America. There are fourteen pages of black/white authentic pictures from that time.
THe author, Cecil Woodham-Smith tells of this episode in history in a way that holds the readers attention from beginning to end and leaves him with the sense of having been through much of the experience. It is a book well worth reading for anyone interested in the history of the 19th century.
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