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The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon’s Exile on Saint Helena

Jean-Paul Kauffmann

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#2411 of 3,809 books · #874 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1999).

Like his subject, Napoleon, author Jean-Paul Kauffmann has experienced captivity, as a three-year hostage in Beirut. He brings his insider's knowledge to this moving account of the most famous French soldier's last years in seclusion on a tropical island. After his defeat at Waterloo in 1815, Napoleon was exiled and imprisoned by the British on the island of St. Helena. He became increasingly withdrawn, surviving on a diet of memories that he recounted to the few people around him. But the book -- part history, part travelogue -- portrays the leader as a prisoner also of his mind, poisoned by nostalgia for his triumphs and grief over his defeats.

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Publisher
Da Capo Press
ISBN-13
9781568581286
Topics
Napoleon's exileSaint HelenaCaptivity and isolation

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