The Chemist of Berlin, the Horseman of Ulster, the Farmgirl of the Kingdom of Mourne - by Boni Thompson (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Poison gas. Clara Immerwahr, wife of its famed inventor, Fritz Haber. George McGivern, an Ulsterman, and horse breeder/farrier who joins the Horse Guards and suffers its effects. Ellen Rogers, his wife, a farmgirl and domestic servant, from the Mountains of Mourne Their stories demonstrate how war affects both the great minds of the age as well as the most ordinary of lives. The story has been based on scholarly research, family history, information from local historians, as well as letters and photographs of the main characters.

About the Author

Although born a proud Canadian and living in the rolling hills of Mono, Ontario, Thompson is apparently composed exclusively of 100 percent Irish DNA. That probably explains her interest in wild Irish stories. The road to completing her own wild Irish story began as a teenager when she inadvertently sunk her finger in an old bullet wound behind her grandfather's ear, a wound few people knew existed, and learned that he had once been a bona fide Irish rebel through and through.