The Escape from Elba: The Fall and Flight of Napoleon 1814-1815 - Softcover

Mackenzie, Norman

 
9781844156047: The Escape from Elba: The Fall and Flight of Napoleon 1814-1815
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1844156044 ISBN 13: 9781844156047
Verlag: PEN & SWORD MILITARY, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The year is 1814. The Allies have driven Napoleon's once-mighty armies back to Paris. Trapped, forced to abdicate after two decades of triumphant rule, the Emperor takes leave of his comrades-in-arms and sets sail for his new domain - the tiny, poverty-stricken, pestilential island of Elba. Yet within ten months Napoleon will enter Paris once again, at the heels of the fleeing Bourbon king, flushed with victory and cheered by the masses. The Escape From Elba tells the heroic story of Napoleon's exile and phoenix-like return. In this classic account, now republished in paperback, Norman MacKenzie chronicles this extraordinary year: the tense last hours of Napoleon's empire, his humiliating exile, his midnight escape and his whirlwind march over snowbound mountains to Grenoble where, in a dramatic confrontation with the French army, he became a reigning prince again. Described in vivid detail are Napoleon's adventures as the head of Elba. He brought society, splendor, organization and political intrigue to this run-down backwater. And he displayed on this small stage the many sides of his charismatic personality.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
PEN & SWORD MILITARY
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1844156044
ISBN 13 
9781844156047
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
299
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780192158635: The Escape from Elba: Fall and Flight of Napoleon, 1814-15

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0192158635 ISBN 13:  9780192158635
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1982
Hardcover