"Napoleon Bonaparte: England's Prisoner"
by Frank Giles

Exercise by Michael A. Riccioli - 2005
Source: Postscript© [http://www.psbooks.co.uk]

Gap-filling exercise

   An expert on      British people      contrast starkly with      controversial book      fallen Emperor      peacefully      shortly after      the Napoleonic legend      there      to throw myself on      unappealing island  
In 1815, Waterloo, Napoleon proclaimed that he was coming 'like Themistocles the hospitality of the '. His hopes of living in the English countryside his eventual imprisonment on the desolate and of St Helena. Frank Giles' probes what really happened - how was the treated? Was he a martyr or a menace? And how did his captivity help to reinvent ?