The Furies by Irving McCabe
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Overview: June 1914: In London, a militant suffragette plants a bomb on the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey, while in Sarajevo, an idealistic young surgeon fights to save the life of the mortally wounded Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Four weeks later the Great War begins and their paths cross when one of the worst typhus epidemics in European history sweeps across the Balkans.
Set in Edinburgh, London, Vienna, and Serbia, this epic love story is centred on the lives of women who were part of the Scottish Women’s Hospital Unit. Led by the suffragist Dr Elsie Inglis, they travelled to Serbia and established a hospital which saved the lives of thousands of Allied soldiers and civilians. The courage of these women was shown during the horror of the Great Serbian Retreat, when they accompanied the Serbian army and thousands of civilians who fled across the snowbound Montenegrin mountains into Albania, with the German army close on their heels.
The novel also tells of the Austrian General whose incompetence led to the start of the First World War, and of the fatal mistake made by a rising star of American microbiology, who sailed to Serbia to try and produce a typhus vaccine. But the heart of this true story is the brave dedication of the Scottish women: their war work was a triumph for the suffrage cause, destroying the myth of female fragility and heralding the British Act of Parliament which finally gave women the right to vote in 1918.
Genre: Historical Fiction
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