Cecil Woodham Smith THE GREAT HUNGER:1845-1849 Ireland, 1989 Reprint HCDJ **NEW*

Description: THE GREAT HUNGER IRELAND 1845-1849, THE STORY OF THE POTATO FAMINE OF THE 1840'S WHICH KILLED ONE MILLION IRISH PEASANTS AND SENT HUNDRED OF THOUSANDS TO THE NEW WORLD. BY CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH. COPYRIGHT 1962, THIS COPY IS A 1989 REPRINT BY OLD TOWN BOOKS IN BRAND NEW CONDITION. The Great Hunger is the story of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. Within five years, one million people died of starvation. Emigrants by the hundreds of thousands sailed for America and Canada in small, ill-equipped, dangerously unsanitary ships. Some ships never arrived; those that did carried passengers already infected with and often dying of typhus. The Irish who managed to reach the United States alive had little or no money and were often too weak to work. They crowded into dirty cellars, begged, and took whatever employment they could get. Epidemics, riots, and chaos followed in their wake. The Great Hunger is a heartbreaking story of suffering, insensitivity, and blundering stupidity; yet it is also an epic tale of courage, dignity, and - despite all odds - a hardly supportable optimism. Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith (1896-1977) was a British historian and biographer. She wrote four popular history books, each dealing with a different aspect of the Victorian era. 34 PHOTOS ARE OF THE COPY LISTED FOR SALE g - non

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