A magisterial account of the worst disasters to strike
humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--conveyed as lyrical
narrative history from the acclaimed author of "The Great
Mortality"
In this masterful, comprehensive account of the Irish Potato
Famine, delivered with novelistic flair, Kelly gives us not only
the startling facts of this disaster--one of the worst to strike
mankind, killing twice as many lives as the American Civil War--but
examines the intersection of political greed, bacterial infection,
religious intolerance, and racism that made it possible. Kelly
brings new material to his analysis of relevant political factors
during the years leading up to the famine, and the extent to which
Britain's nation-building policies exacerbated the mounting crisis.
Despite the shocking, infuriating implications of his findings,
"The Graves Are Walking" is ultimately a story of triumph--of one
people's ability to remake themselves in a new land in the face of
the unthinkable.
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