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While the principle narrator is Christensen's father, a young missionary doctor who, in a hair-raising journey, smuggled his family behind Japanese battlelines
War and Famine in Africa
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Pages: 35
Authors: Mark R. Duffield
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Oxfam Publications

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The report argues that the international provision of welfare and relief is no longer adequate to deal with the consequences of conflict: the whole system is in
Hungry Bengal
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Authors: Janam Mukherjee
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Examines the interconnected events including World War II, India's struggle for independence, and a period of acute scarcity that lead to mass starvation in col
Evil Days
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Alex De Waal
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Human Rights Watch

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For the past thirty years-under both Emperor Haile Selassie and President Mengistu Haile Mariam-Ethiopia suffered continuous war and intermittent famine until e
Mass Starvation
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The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappea