Not really a cookery book or a detailed consideration of the campaign and battle, but an insight into myth making, misinformation, maintenance (and destruction) of power as well as the life of Napoleon.
A fine review can be found here:
https://avonnapoleonicfellowship.blogspot.com/2012/03/fine-dish-but-watch-for-bones.html
I found this book particularly interesting given what we now experience as alternative facts, real facts, mis and dis information and the lies of those seeking power (or trying to retrain it).
A passage in the book I thought was an excellent observation started with myths are useful. "They can assuage the bitterness of a defeat, or deny it altogether, and foster a sense of solidarity. Yet myths tend to outlive their usefulness, and in the long run, through their mindless repetition, they breed complacency, and deaden rather than inspire the mind." (Page 213)
How apt for our times.
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