Napoleon and Doctor Verling on ST Helena de J David Markham - 2005-12-31

Pen and Sword Military, 2006-03-19. Hardcover. Like New. 1.1024 9.2126 6.3780.

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London: Pen and Sword Military. 178pp., b/w illus. Ex libris label to ffep o/w a lovely copy, both book and dustwrapper in better than very good condition. . VG+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2005.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 178, b/w illustrations, ""Many books have been written about St Helena and its most famous resident, the exiled Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The episode has been so intensively researched that it is rare for a fresh, unpublished account to come to light. Yet Dr James Verling's St Helena journal is just such a source. Verling…

United Kingdom: Pen and Sword . 178 pages. Very clean hardback with a clean dust jacket. Napoleon and Doctor Verling on St Helena . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2005.

Pen and Sword Military, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. H/B 178 pages, condition is very good.

Pen and Sword. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. Hardback; very good in very good dustjacket. ; Study of Napoleon's last years on St. Helena, based on the previously unpublished eyewitness account by Dr James Verling. Illustrated. ; 208 pages .

Great Britain: Pen and Sword Books Limited, 2005. Hardback. Verling was based on St. Helena during Napoleon's imprisonment and at one point he was even appointed as Napoleon's official physician. It was not to be, however, as Napoleon refused to accept a doctor appointed by his hated jailor, Sir Hudson Lowe, without putting restrictions on the relationship that were unacceptable to both Verling and Lowe. The politics, often petty, of this situation are fascinating and offer an amazing look at life on this remote island. Throughout his stay, this young Irish doctor kept a vivid and detailed diary of his experiences, which is published here for the first time, augmented with important letters between the principal plays and with an introduction and analysis by Napoleonic scholar J. David Markham. Through Verling's eyes we get a fresh view of daily life on the island and of the suspicion-filled artificial society that grew up around Napoleon during his last years. Issues of high European… Leer más

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