Mémoires du maréchal Berthier ... Campagne d'Égypte, première partie

A senior staff officer recounts his role in an overseas military campaign, detailing strategic movements, staff duties, and interactions with commanders while also documenting administrative and scientific undertakings organized during the expedition. The volume intersperses narrative chapters with appended official correspondence and documentary evidence intended to defend contested decisions and correct rival accounts. An editor's prefatory note fills chronological gaps and explains the selection of papers, and a biographical notice sketches the author's early career and professional qualities. Together narrative, documentary appendices, and commentary present a blended military memoir and source collection that illuminates both operations and the bureaucratic controversies surrounding them.