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The Escape from Elba by Norman McKenzie
The fall and flight of Napoleon 1814 to 1815
FIRST EDITION
In this classic account 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 dramatic confrontation with the French army,
he became a reigning prince again.
He was sent into exile on Elba, a small Mediterranean island located 260 km (160 miles) south of France and 10 km (6 miles) west of the Italian coastline. Ten months later, in one of those life-is-stranger-than-fiction episodes, Napoleon managed to spirit himself off the island and regain the French crown. How did Napoleon escape from Elba