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The Black Room at Longwood
Napoleon’s Exile on Saint Helena
by Jean-Paul Kauffmann, Patricia Clancy

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• Format: paperback, 320 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Release date: September 7, 2000
• Awards: Grand Prix RTL-Lire (1997), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1999), Scott Moncrieff Prize for Patricia Clancy (2000)
• Author: Jean-Paul Kauffmann, Patricia Clancy
• Genres: history, travel, france, biography
• ISBN: 9781568581712 (1568581718)
• Language: english

About The Book

Like his subject, Napoleon, author Jean-Paul Kauffmann has experienced captivity, as a three-year hostage in Beirut. He brings his insider’s knowledge to this moving account of the most famous French soldier’s last years in seclusion on a tropical island. After his defeat at Waterloo in 1815, Napoleon was exiled and imprisoned by the British on the island of St. Helena. He became increasingly withdrawn, surviving on a diet of memories that he recounted to the few people around him. But the book — part history, part travelogue — portrays the leader as a prisoner also of his mind, poisoned by nostalgia for his triumphs and grief over his defeats. « A haunting, unforgettable book….Kauffmann captures the desolate atmosphere of Napoleon’s last home with evocative precision. » — Boston Globe

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