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Napoleon & St Helena: On the Island of Exile (Armchair Traveller)
Napoleon St Helena On the Island of Exile - Armchair Traveller Author:Johannes Willms "A fascinating romp through Napoleonic history."?The New York Times Book ReviewIsolated in the vastness of the South Atlantic, St. Helena was for centuries important only as a victualling station for ships of the British East India Company. It was on such a journey that Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon's nemesis on the... more » battlefields of Europe, took note of the island's remote impregnability. Napoleon's later exile transformed this speck on the maritime map into one of the world's most famous islands. Johannes Willms visits this strange colonial survivor and unearths both a past and present that disturbs and delights with observations far beyond the ghost of Bonaparte.« less