Editor: Proctor Patterson Jones Pages: 444 Illustrations: 25 color and 7 black and white photographs, 15 photographs of veterans in uniforms, 255 color paintings, 236 black and white paintings and illustrations, 17 other tints, handwriting samples, and document reproductions. Maps: 15 maps and floorplans. Footnotes: none Appendices: 9 including Napoleon's Family Trees, Diagnosis of Napoleon's Health, Duchies awarded by Napoleon. Bibliography: None Index: 501 in four pages Publisher: Proctor-Jones; distributed by Random House Publication Date: 1992 Binding: Cloth (Oversized hardback) with high quality paper. Page size is 10.5x10.5" ISBN: 0-679-41458-4 Price: $95.00 Summary: An incredible labor of love, Proctor Jones's Napoleon: An Intimate Account of the Year's of Supremacy 1800-1814 is an overwhelming visual guide to Napoleon the Emperor and the man during his years of Imperial rule. It is also a very fine record of Napoleon's Paris. The text is comprised of extensive selections from the memoirs of Baron de Meneval and Constant Wairy, the first Valet of Napoleon, edited by Proctor Jones. Napoleon: An Intimate Account is an amazing visual archive which did not fail to awe this reviewer. Perhaps the New York Review of Books said it best in calling this "A Napoleonic Museum within Covers." It is a first rate collector's item for Napoleonic bibliophiles. The text comes from English translations of Constant Wairy's Recollections and from the memoirs of Baron Claude-Francois Meneval, Napoelon's personal secretary. Both writers do in fact provide wonderful glimpses behind the scenes of Napoleon during his reign. The reader gathers a sense of Napoleon the man that military histories tend to gloss over or ignore. Undoubtedly there are some among our wonderful readership who would be dissappointed to find no orders-ofbattle, no critiques of Napoleon's generalship, and no information on how long it takes to form a square. However, if you have a general interest in Napoleon as a man and a ruler, and you have an appreciation for Napoleonic art, this book is highly recommended. Furthermore, Proctor Jones deserves to be saluted for the astonishing effort that went into editing and producing this apparent life's masterwork. More Book Reviews Military Life Under Napoleon: The Memoirs of Captain Elzear Blaze The Waterloo Campaign Napoleon: An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy On the Napoleonic Wars Rod of Iron, French Counterinsurgency Policy in Aragon during  the  Peninsular War Back to Empire, Eagles, & Lions Table of Contents Vol. 2 No. 13 Back to EEL List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1995 by Emperor's Headquarters This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com