SPECI ATOI BOOK OF THE WEEK
The Exploits of Baron de Marbot
edited by Christopher Summerville
Why read the Patrick O'Brians of this world, when the actual participants left behind so many and such entertaining memoirs? Christopher Summerville has edited the best sections of the autobiography of French General, the Baron de Marbot. Marbot has a novelist's eye for detail, and he recounts adventures and astonishing hardships and extraordinary bravery in battle.
'One of the best chronologies of the Napoleonic wars I have seen, each chapter has a brief introduction which perfectly sets the scene, there is a glossary and impeccable notes and sources. He has done his Hussar-hero proud.'
Allan Mallinson, The Spectator
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