A young Irish doctor leaves Dublin in the war fever of 1870, joins the Anglo-American Ambulance and is at Sedan as the French army collapses. He nurses thousands of wounded, sees Bazeilles burn, rides an Arab horse through occupied country and later serves with the Germans, working from notes he jotted down in spare moments and wrote up in 1873.
A vivid, unpretentious eyewitness record of battlefield medicine and civilian relief in the Franco-Prussian War. Download the free EPUB.