Book Details
Format
Audiobook
Language
English
Published
Jun 30, 2011
Publisher
Bolinda Publishing
ISBN-10
1742851193
ISBN-13
9781742851198
Description
This is the story of three terrible famines. The first is an Gorta Mr, the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846. The second is the deadly famine that struck Bengal in 1943. The third is the Ethiopian famine, which first sprung up in lethal form in the 1970s under Emperor Haile Selassie and then reappeared under the brutal dictator Mengistu in the 1980s. Keneally visited Eritrea in 1984 to see the effects of this grave event.
Genres
History