The Cry and the Covenant

by Morton Thompson

unabridged

Pan Books, 1969, paperback

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ details stamp on half title page, marking to inside front and back covers, sticker to front cover, small tears at top and bottom spine, creasing and discoloration to covers age toned pages (see photographs)

"Told against the colourful background of nineteenth-century Vienna and Budapest, when the dream of a free Hungary was crushed by Austrian cannon, this majestic novel lays bare the heartbeat, the will, the compulsions that drove Ignaz Semmelweis to devote his life to medicine.  A man consumed with a burning passion, whose pertinacity established that dirty hands do carry infection, particularly to those vulnerable creatures, newly-delivered women."