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

 
From the publishers:
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 fleeing Bourbon king, flushed with victory and cheered by the masses. “The Escape From Elba” tells the […] story of Napoleon's exile and […] return. In this […] account, now republished in paperback, Norman MacKenzie chronicles this extraordinary year: the tense last hours of Napoleon's empire, his humiliating exile, his midnight escape and his whirlwind march over snowbound mountains to Grenoble where, in a […] confrontation with the French army, he became a reigning prince again. Described in […] detail are Napoleon's adventures as the head of Elba. He brought society, splendour, organization and political intrigue to this run-down backwater. And he displayed on this small stage the many sides of his charismatic […] personality.
 
About the author
Norman Mackenzie has had a long career as an academic, historian and writer.