Napoleon Boneparte

Focusing on Napoleon's last six years--from initial shipboard captivity with the Royal Navy to his death in exile on St. Helena in 1821--historian Frank Giles creates an authentic portrait of the fallen emperor. Napoleon labored to obfuscate his tyranny in France with a legend of him as the architect of a free Europe, while his jailer, Lord Lowe, has been reviled by contemporary critics and historians. In this new paperback edition, with eight pages of photographs, Giles presents a new and balanced view of Lowe and Napoleon, both condemned to a tiny Atlantic island for six years. "Will spark controversy about Napoleon's life and death on St. Helena."--History Today "What makes this study worth reading ... is the fascinating variety of contradictory opinions about Napoleon."--Library Journal "A lively, readable acount, and its revisionist view rings true."--Kirkus Review "[A] judicious and well-researched contribution to this debate."--Sunday Telegraph