Ireland's Hunger, England's Fault?
An English historian, CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH made her first and deep impression on American readers with her biography of Florence Nightingale. She went on to examine the calamitous leadership of the British generals in the Crimea, and in her blazing narrative THE REASON WHY she told how the Light Brigade was sent to its death. One of the British generals responsible for that decision was the proprietor of vast estates in Ireland, and in tracing his history, Mrs, Woodham-Smith came inevitably to that pitiable disaster, the potato famine. The pages which follow have been drawn from her splendid, compassionate book THE GREAT HUNGER, which will be published on February 13 by Harper & Row.