The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba From Exile to Escape
Penguin Press, 2018 (Penguin Paperback, 2019)
Profile Books (UK), Balans (Dutch), Beta (Czech), Boveda (Spanish)
A 2018 Best Book (The Oregonian), 2018 Nonfiction Favorite (Seattle Times), and 2019 Coups de Coeur Title (American Library in Paris Book Awards)
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In the spring of 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. Having overseen an empire spanning half the European continent and governed the lives of some 80 million people, he found himself exiled to less than a hundred square miles of territory. Part forensic investigation, part dramatic jailbreak adventure, INVISIBLE EMPEROR traces a narrative history of Napoleon’s ten-month exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba. This is a story that asks us to think carefully about how quickly ideas, no matter how preposterous, quixotic and grandiose, can leap from the imagination into reality.