Why Waterloo?

1953 Doubleday hardcover. A. P Herbert (Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan). A meticulous dusting off of the past- Napoleon's exile in Elba- by a Briton whose examination of ""miles of history"" brings forth a condemnation of previous historians and interpretations. Here is not the monster, nor the outlaw, but a man, grievously used by his fellow monarchs, betrayed not only in the terms of the peace but in the matter of his wife and child; and as King of his little kingdom was spied on and distrusted by Colonel Campbell, the only Englishman on the island, whose frantic reports ""drove"" Napoleon off the island to his final defeat. - Kirkus Review