Books by Cormac Ó Gráda

The author is Cormac Ó Gráda, the renowned Irish economic historian, and the subtitle is Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars .  This is a first-rate and also horrifying of a still underdiscussed topic.  Here is one excerpt:

The 1943 Bengal famine has been cited by Amartya Sen and others as a classic example of market failure.  But in his new (and excellent) book Eating Dead People is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future, Cormac Ó Gráda devotes an entire chapter to that episode and comes away with a different impression.  Here is a summary sentence:

That is all from the new and noteworthy Famine: A Short History , by Cormac O Grada.  Here is the book's home page .