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For anyone who wants to get beneath the heavily propagandized media coverage to an understanding of a war with consequences that could prove cataclysmic, reading this timely book will be an urgent necessity.

The Broken Boy is an engaging memoir about Patrick Cockburn's own childhood experience of polio and a forgotten epidemic. A new introduction by the author draws parallels between the 1956 polio epidemic in Cork, the last great polio epidemic in the world, and the ongoing global pandemic of Covid-19.