The story of the 19th century Irish potato famine including discussions on its cause and its political, social, and economic effects.

The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 1849

WOODHAM-SMITH, Cecil

Business & Money

Harper Row Publishers

Dust cover has a few small tears on bottom edge. Embossed name and written date on fly-leaf. Pages clean and crisp, no writing or marking in book. Published 1953 by McGraw-Hill Book Company.

The Reason Why

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Constable

This study of the personality and achievements of Florence Nightingale is based on extensive research and unpublished material. She achieved fame for her leadership of a group of British nurses during the Crimean War, and afterwards she dedicated herself to promoting public health. Following a collapse at age 37, she remained bedridden for more than ten years and became one of history's most famous invalids. Hugh Small has produced a new and startling explanation of Florence Nightingale's actions, comparing the conflicting contemporary accounts of what really happened in her hospital at Scutari during the war and uncovering an official cover-up of a public health disaster for which Nightingale felt personally responsible.

Florence Nightingale

Biographies & Memoirs

This history is a war story of astonishing courage and honor, of stupidity, of blood, death, agony -- and waste. Nothing in British campaign history has ever equaled the tragic farce that was the charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War's Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn enemies for more than thirty years. In revealing the combination of pride and obstinacy that was to prove so fatal, Woodham-Smith gives us a picture of a vanished world, in which heroism and military glory guaranteed an immortality impossible in a more cynical age.

The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

History

Europe

Penguin Group

Nothing in British campaign history has ever equalled the tragic farce that was the Charge of the Light Brigade. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn enemies for more than thirty years. In revealing the combination of pride and obstinacy that was to prove so fatal, the author gives us a picture of a vanished world, in which heroism and military glory guaranteed an immortality impossible in a more cynical age.

The Reason Why (Penguin Classic Military History)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

This biography of Queen Victoria, first published in 1972, deals with her wretched childhood which had the effect of developing within her a "vein of iron", and with her passionate nature, her devotion to the Prince Consort and her native shrewdness in politics.

Queen Victoria: Her Life and Times,Volume One 1819-1861

Literature & Fiction

Hamish Hamilton

The effects of the Irish potato famine on Ireland, USA and England.

The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-49

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Queen Victoria

Dell Publishing

The Great Hunger

Community & Culture

NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY LONDON

This history is a war story of astonishing courage and honor, of stupidity, of blood, death, agony -- and waste.  Nothing in British campaign history has ever equaled the tragic farce that was the charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War's Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn enemies for more than thirty years.  In revealing the combination of pride and obstinacy that was to prove so fatal, Woodham-Smith gives us a picture of a vanished world, in which heroism and military glory guaranteed an immortality impossible in a more cynical age.

Plume

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The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 1849

The Reason Why

Florence Nightingale

The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

The Reason Why (Penguin Classic Military History)

Queen Victoria: Her Life and Times,Volume One 1819-1861

The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-49

Queen Victoria

The Great Hunger

The Reason Why