To Befriend An Emperor: Betsy Balcombe's Memoirs of Napoleon on St Helena by J. David Markham, Betsy Balcombe

To Befriend An Emperor: Betsy Balcombe's Memoirs of Napoleon on St Helena

J. David Markham, Betsy Balcombe

189 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative reflective fast-paced
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Young Elizabeth Balcombe, or Betsy to friends and family, found life on the remote island of St Helena intolerably dull. Most fourteen-year-olds would. Her father had been posted to that unforgiving station in the Atlantic and, being a family man,...

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