The Escape From Elba: The Fall and Flight of Napoleon, 1814-1815 (1982) By Norman MacKenzie
 
Recounts how Napoleon was defeated, exiled to Elba, ruled that tiny island kingdom for a year, and managed to return to the continent and challenge, once again, the European power.
 
n this gripping full-length account of his first exile we see Napoleon not as the Man of Destiny but scaled down to human size, his field of action no longer the whole of Europe but the comic-opera kingdom of Elba. Even on this tiny island the habits of power persisted, and Napoleon acted the role of the great commander, the lawgiver, the patron of the arts and sciences, and in all his dealings revealed himself as an egotist of great personal charm. (The author's) account of his year in exile is an exciting story of plot and counter-plot, of careless statesmen, political intriguers, dissident soldiers, and secret agents. Napoleon's waiting game on Elba is played against a background of unrest in France, muddle in England, and warlike quarrels among the Allies trying to redraw the map of Europe at the Congress of Vienna
 
Hard Cover with Dust Cover
299 pages
In Good Condition