Download or read book The Exploits of Baron de Marbot written by Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin baron de Marbot and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hugely entertaining contemporaneous account of the Napoleonic Wars by a young officer who was eventually promoted to General on the eve of Waterloo. Abridged from the two-volume original of The Adventures of Baron de Marbot, the Exploits are edited to provide expert comment and essential background. The episodes are picaresque, anecdotal, packed with bravado, duels, deceptions, narrow escapes and derring-do.