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The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba

Mark Braude

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Few historical figures are as well-known as Napoleon Bonaparte, and yet the Emperor's ten-month exile on the small island of Elba is virtually unexplored. Now, for the first time, we have a window into this critical moment when the most powerful man on earth turns defeat into one final challenge.

A close character study mixed with a world-shaking drama, The Invisible Emperor will show Napoleon as he's never before been seen: as heart-broken husband, civil engineer, interior decorator, gardener and spy master. It will show a man at his nadir rise up against the global odds to build a miniature island empire, turn his two greatest foes into his closest confidantes, and return to France without firing a single shot.

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  • Praise for Making Monte Carlo: Braude's fluent and fast-paced writing style is ideally suited to his subjectmatter, which is all about vision, speed of thought and execution... this is such an overlooked history - one that Belgian author Luc Sante justifi ably describes in the book's blurb as being "as capacious and dramatic as a 19th-century thriller - The Financial Times

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