Excerpt from Napoleon in Exile, or a Voice From St. Helena, Vol. 2 of 2: The Opinions and Reflections of Napoleon on the Most Important Events of His Life and Government, in His Own Words Asked the emperor whether it was at Lodi or Arcola that he had seized the standard, and pre cipitated himself amongst the enemy's troops. He replied, at Arcola, not Lodi. At Arcola I was slightly wounded; but at Lodi no such circum stance occurred. Why do you ask? Do you think me Melee said be, laughing. I begged to assure him of my thorough conviction of the con travy, which was too well known to be doubted; and that it was merely to solve a difference of opinion which had occurred between some of as English who had not the means of procuring at St. Helena any books to satisfy us at which of the two. It had occurred, that I had taken the liberty to ask him. Those things, said be, with a smile, are not 'worth mentioning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Napoleon in Exile, a Voice from St. Helena Volume 2 of 2 contains Napoleon's own words.

This is the second volume of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame it incorporated an astonishing variety of material: short stories; humorous sketches; reports on sensational crimes; historical predictions; portraits of famous people; autobiographical pieces; and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared in the Diary itself.

In 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on the island of St. Helena to begin his imprisonment following Waterloo. By 1821 he was dead. During his brief stay, he crossed paths with six medical men, all of whom would be changed by the encounter, whether by court martial, the shame of misdiagnosis, or resulting celebrity. What would seem to be a straightforward post became entangled with politics, as Governor Hudson Lowe became paranoid as to the motivations of each doctor and brought their every move into question. In Napoleon's Poisoned Chalice, Martin Howard addresses the political pitfalls navigated with varying success by the men who were assigned to care for the most famous man in Europe. The hostility that sprang up between individuals thrown together in isolation, the impossible situations the doctors found themselves in and the fear of censure when Napoleon finally began to die.