by George Sava
London: Robert Hale. (1971).
First edition, first printing.
Fore-edge faintly foxed, else nearly fine in grey boards with gilt spine-titling; in a mildly worn illustrated dust jacket with one short closed tear to rear panel.Jacket illustration by Barbara Walton.
Napoleon--disguised in order to visit his mistress--recruits the actor Talma stand in for him on the brink of Waterloo, but alas, Napoleon stays the night and misses the battle, and it is Talma who is sent to St. Helena in his place!