Gebundenes Buch

Blood, Guts and Gore

Assistant Surgeon John Gordon Smith at Waterloo

Herausgeber: Glover, Gareth

Beschreibung

A classic memoir of the Napoleonic Wars.

Autor

John Gordon Smith qualified as a doctor in Edinburgh in 1810 and began his army medical career as a hospital mate on 25 April 1811. He became an assistant surgeon to the 11th Light Dragoons in March 1813 and transferred to the 12th Light Dragoons in October of the same year serving in the Peninsular War. In 1815, with the 12th Light Dragoons, he served in Belgium during the Waterloo campaign and the occupation of France that followed. In 1818 he was placed on half pay and he never returned to military service. He published the two volume The English Army at Waterloo and in France in 1830 and died in London in September 1833.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781399097215
• ISBN-10: 1399097210
• Artikelnr.: 63988619