Napoleon on Napoleon: The autobiography of the Emperor

By Napoléon Bonaparte

Book Overview

During his exile on St. Helena, Napoleon dictated memoirs, notes, letters and battle commentaries to the generals who shared his captivity. He then edited the material himself. The result is an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0304340464
• ISBN13: 9780304340460
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 7.7" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

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This should be required reading for every school child being, of course, The only Text out of countless books that is about Napoleon, though, writen by the subject. From what I gather Napoleon wrote his memoirs while in his finnal exile on St. Helena where many thought he went insane. When reading this I felt rather odd knowing that the very person I idolize and think of as 'god-like' penned the very words I had read . needless to say, Buy this book