Napoleon: passion, death and resurrection, 1815-1840

Title: Napoleon: passion, death and resurrection, 1815-1840
Creator: Dwyer, Philip
Relation: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/napoleon-9781408891728
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Resource Type: book
Date: 2018
Description: This meticulously researched study opens with Napoleon no longer in power, but instead a prisoner in a dressing gown just off the English coast. This may have been a great fall from power, but Napoleon, international celebrity of his age, still held such immense attraction and glamour that every day, huge crowds would gather on the far shore in the hope of catching a glimpse of him. Exile on St Helena was decided upon by his captors as the only possible solution for containing the potential for trouble of this once most-powerful of leaders. Philip Dwyer closes his ambitious trilogy exploring Napoleon's life, legacy and myth by moving from those first months of imprisonment, through the years of exile, up to death and then beyond, taking his work into an examination of how the foundations of legend that had been laid by Napoleon during his lifetime continued to be built upon by his followers.
Subject: Napoleon, Emperor of the French I, 1769-1821; influence; last years; exile
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1443712
Identifier: uon:42082
Identifier: ISBN:9781408891766
Language: eng