June 18, 1815. Napoleon’s attempt to rebuild his empire, after escaping exile on the island of Elba and regaining control of France, came to an abrupt and disastrous end near a place called Mont Saint ...

When I was young, one of my favourite TV shows was M*A*S*H. Set in a US mobile hospital during the Korean War, the army doctors and nurses approached their work with wacky black humour. As the ...

Richardson's lively, well-researched book is a study of the man rather than the medicine, but there is lots of gory detail about the battlefield surgery Larrey did so much to advance. Larrey: Surgeon ...

Dominique Jean Larrey, the chief surgeon for Napoleon’s army, is regarded as the father of modern military surgery. His was a remarkable career. Observing how many injured soldiers lay on the ...