A surgeon in Napoleon's Grande Armée : the campaign journal of Baron Percy

Percy, Pierre-François, baron, 1754-18252024

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Pierre-François Percy was Surgeon-in-Chief of Napoleon's Grande Armée. This is an English translation of Baron Percy's notebooks, containing his interesting, revealing, and informative testimony of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns in which he played an active role, as the most senior surgeon in the French Army, from 1799-1807. His descriptions are meticulous and personal; injuries are described scientifically, their stark details offering a vivid and horrifying picture of the aftermath of the fighting. Percy's singular position - living with the soldiers and sharing in their poor conditions, while also being aware of the administrative decisions that governed (and often negatively impacted) their lives - makes for an account that is simultaneously fascinating for the general reader and invaluable for scholars of military and surgical history.