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Invisible enemies of Napoleon's army. War and epidemics

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Invisible enemies of Napoleon's army. War and epidemics
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Why did the French army lose more people in hospitals than on the battlefield? Who contributed more to Napoleon's defeat - the Russian winter or "General Typhus"? Why did soldiers die after eating watermelons, and doctors treated the plague with lemonade? This book is not about battles, but about enemies that neither spies nor commanders saw. About diseases that blossomed with oleanders, and epidemics that decided the outcome of entire campaigns. From the sands of Egypt to the snows of Russia - before you is the history of an invisible war in which bullets gave way to fever, typhus, dysentery and plague. How deadly is the incompetence of doctors? And can fear kill faster than disease?
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