The Waterloo Campaign

Dictated on Saint Helena and first printed in the 1820s, this is Napoleon's own narrative of the Hundred Days of 1815. He recounts the return from Elba, the rebuilding of an army, and the June march into Belgium against Wellington and Blucher. The text treats Ligny, Quatre Bras, and the battle he calls Mont-Saint-Jean, arguing that weather, delayed orders, Ney's handling of the cavalry, and Grouchy's failure to keep the Prussians off the field cost a victory he still presents as tactically near. The book is a commander's brief, not a neutral campaign history, and it ends with abdication and the road to exile.

Bound in dark red buckram with a design in gold. Grey slipcase.