GARETH GLOVER is an ex-Royal Navy Officer who has studied the Napoleonic Wars for over forty years and over the last decade has written and compiled more than sixty books of previously unpublished archival material from the period. He is the acknowledged foremost authority on the British archives related to the Napoleonic Wars and has made a huge number of discoveries which have radically altered our understanding of the Waterloo campaign.
Each object has a photo of the object and then a short biographical sketch of how the object is relevant to Napoleon's life. The sketches are all well written and concise providing relevant information in an easy to read manner that is accessible to both the scholar and the layman. -- Battles and Book Reviews