How the Irish Saved Civilization
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Sceptre
Published: March 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780340637876
Subjects: British & Irish history; Cultural studies; Literary studies: general; Social history; Europe; History: World
First sentence: On the last, cold day of December in the dying year we count as 406, the river Rhine froze solid, providing the natural bridge that hundreds of thousands of hungry men, women, and children had been waiting for.