Escape from Elba, The: the Fall and Flight of Napoleon 1814-1815

The year is 1814. The Allies have driven Napoleon’s once-mighty armies back to Paris. Trapped, forced to abdicate after two decades of triumphant rule, the Emperor takes leave of his comrades-in-arms and sets sail for his new domain – the tiny, poverty-stricken, pestilential island of Elba. Yet within ten months Napoleon will enter Paris once again, at the heels of the fleeting Bourbon king, flushed with victory and cheered by the masses.

The Escape from Elba tells the heroic…