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This unique and atmospheric volume presents the dramatic story of Napoleon s escape from Elba and his march on Paris in the words of eyewitnesses and participants. Drawing on hundreds of first-hand accounts by Napoleon s supporters and opponents, Paul Britten Austin recreates the drama of those tumultuous days of the spring of 1815: Napoleon s dramatic landing at Antibes in the south of France, the first heady days of his arrival after almost a year of exile, his almost miraculous march across France, his arrival in Paris, and the coup which led to the fall of the Bourbons. Paul Britten Austin s technique, so brilliantly presented in his 1812 trilogy on Napoleon s invasion of Russia, brings historical events to life and gives a dramatic insight into the hopes and fears of the French nation in that spring of 1815.
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