Campbell's intimate diary of events on the island gives character studies of all the key personalities and records a great deal of gossip. An interesting source of details concerning the personality of Napoleon and the tensions and subterfuge involved in plans for an escape.
Originally published as Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba, Being a Journal of Occurrences in 1814-1815 with note of Conversations (London: John Murray, 1869). The present edition includes translations and explanatory footnotes.
Napoleon on Elba: Diary of an Eyewitness to Exile
Author(s) : CAMPBELL Sir Neil
- Year of publication :
- 2004
- Place and publisher :
- Welwyn Garden City: Ravenhall Books
- Number of pages :
- 206