Finding Napoleon

3.5 stars France, 1769. After losing everything, defeated Napoleon flees to the British shore and pleads with the British politicians to take him in. Instead, they exile him to a remote island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic. On the same ship, there are a few people who remain loyal to Bonaparte.......more

Finding Napoleon by Margaret Rodenberg is an excellent historical fiction novel that depicts the last few years of Napoleon’s life in exile on St. Helena, his little-known and rumored last love Albine de Montholon, and an extension of a partial manuscript that was written by the man himself (Clisson......more

Napoleon. Now there's a name that comes with some preconceptions. It's difficult to get around the power of history and legend to get a glimpse at the complicated human behind it all, but FINDING NAPOLEON manages it—and manages it beautifully. The book follows Napoleon and his entourage through his f......more

This book is a well researched, incredibly creative, remarkable and tragic story of the final days of the man whose name rules history. Unlike the most highlighted years of his life, the conflicting politics under his rule, this book introduces us to an older Napoleon in exile sans title, power and......more

Oh my. This book. Born from a secret manuscript. At age 26, Napoleon Bonaparte wrote the scant twenty pages—and kept "Clisson" hidden all his life, even carrying the seedling story with him into his final exile on the island of St. Helena. When author Margaret Rodenberg learned of the story’s existenc......more