could you suggest me a book about the importance of the illness

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Talty, Stephen. The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon’s Greatest Army. New York: Crown, 2010.
>An account of the influence on Napoléon’s Grande Armée of the typhus epidemic, which caused half of the soldiers’ deaths, with only a fourth dying in combat and another fourth from starvation and exposure. Napoléon’s doctors had warned of typhus epidemic in western Russia—a landscape that the 450,000 men had to cross. With the retreat of the army, typhus spread throughout western Europe.
http://bookzz.org/book/1129852/b93522

Martin, Brian Joseph. Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France. Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2011.
>Martin insightfully describes how the esprit de corps of the French army doctors was tied to a profound system of fraternities and new forms of male-dominated intimacy—an enrichment for any course on gender, health, and the military.
http://bookzz.org/book/1256627/807dea

Howard, Martin R. Napoleon’s Doctors: The Medical Services of the Grande Armée. Stroud, UK: Spellmount, 2006.
>Howard offers a concise study of the army medical corps and how it was influenced by the emperor and the inner circle of his loyal doctors. Howard also deals with their confrontation with the brutal realities of artillery and cavalry warfare.

Faria, Miguel A., Jr. “Dominique-Jean Larrey: Napoleon’s Surgeon from Egypt to Waterloo.” Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia 79.9 (1990): 693–695.
>Faria introduces Napoléon’s personal physician and the chief surgeon of the Grande Armée in this biographical article. The author then covers several of Larrey’s surgical innovations during the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, along with the wars against Austria and Prussia and the march on Moscow—as well as his creation of new medical care options and hospitals.

>>2345547
Howard, Martin R. Napoleon’s Doctors: The Medical Services of the Grande Armée. Stroud, UK: Spellmount, 2006.
>Howard offers a concise study of the army medical corps and how it was influenced by the emperor and the inner circle of his loyal doctors. Howard also deals with their confrontation with the brutal realities of artillery and cavalry warfare.

>>2345548
woops meant this one for the last
Crumplin, Michael. Men of Steel: Surgery in the Napoleonic Wars. Shrewsbury, UK: Quiller, 2007.
>Crumplin discusses the interrelationship of treating behaviors and the surgical techniques of military surgeons during the Napoleonic Wars, which only began to change with the advent of the 19th century.

>>2345547
http://www.haciendapub.com/articles/dominique-jean-larrey-napoleons-surgeon-egypt-waterloo
article on larrey

>>2345547
Thanks anon, seems really interesting.
Do you have something more general about the importance of the health of the general in battlefield? (If yes you really made my day)

>>2345710
you mean throughout history, or napoleon's generals?

>>2347452
Throughout history

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>>2348434

Did you know that Napoleon wasn't actually short? He was also a homo.

>>2348439
>>2348434
Thank you very much.
>>2348452
He was 5ft and 2 inch in frech measurement, so not short.
>homo
What?