01 The Battle by Patrick Rambaud

Author:Patrick Rambaud [Rambaud, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780802138101
Goodreads: 1262620
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1997-08-26T22:00:00+00:00

on foot, studying their cargo and occasionally pointing to a wounded man. 'That one's not worth the trouble any more . . .'

The dying man would be dragged off the platform and laid on the grass, as the ambulance moved on at the draught horses' slow pace. Paradis remained on his feet, in a daze, clinging to the uprights of the haycart as if they were prison bars. In the distance, he recognized the bivouac of the Guard and then they reached the small bridge. It was seven o'clock, night was falling and the reddish glow of the fires lit up a horde of at least four hundred wounded who had been stretched out on bales of straw or on the ground. Paradis was put near a hussar with one leg crushed to a pulp, who dragged himself along like a snake and tore at the dirt with his fingernails, raging against the Emperor and the Archduke. There was no respite for Dr Percy and his assistants: drenched in sweat, they amputated arms and legs in a hut, using carpenter's saws. All that could be heard were screams and curses.

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