From the back cover:
"At St Helena, during the six barren years between Waterloo and his death, Napoleon dictated these memoirs to the various members of his staff who had come with him into exile. The Emperor had already painted a picture of his soul on the history of the world. He used the time which remained to him after his fall to document the picture, to explain his motives, his ruses, his tactics and his doubts. The elaborate mechanisms which turned revolution into empire and held the combined armies of a hostile world at bay are dissected and held up to our view. This book is required reading for politicians, but also for soldiers, and of course for students of history and human greatness. 'There is no nonsense about what this volume contains. It contains Napol-eon. You see him, you hear him, you taste him, you smell him. I defy anyone to read otherwise than at a single sitting this version of the Hundred Days. What an eclipse of all the novelists who have struggled with the tale.
' Sunday Times '
 
As if the captive Eagle chained to his rock were reliving the exultation of each predatory flight. Napoleon is here his own epic and his own Homer.' New York Times
 
'From the literary point of view this (The Supper at Beaucaire) is the first of Napoleon's works and must always be of interest from the subtlety of its arguments.' Times Literary Supplement 'A classic of military and political autobiography. Observer The cover shows a wood engraving by Reynolds Stone."
 
Very Good Copy Of this rare book.