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The Swallows of Montafia — Print + Ebook
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A historian's memoir of a life spent with the past, in print and as an ebook.
In The Swallows of Montafia, historian and Napoleon biographer Alan Strauss-Schom looks back on his own life: the French archives and reading rooms along the Seine, drafty hotel rooms and borrowed apartments, and the solitude and stubborn hope of a scholar chasing hidden truths about Napoleon and his era. Now settled in the Piedmontese village of Montafia, where swallows circle the tiled roofs, he finds a place where the weight of history meets the beauty of the present.
Part personal memoir and part portrait of rural Italy, the book reflects on memory, belonging, exile and homecoming.
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About the Author
Alan Strauss-Schom wrote Napoleon Bonaparte: A Biography (a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist), The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III and Trafalgar: Countdown to Battle. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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ISBN-13 (Paperback): 9781943657940
ISBN-13 (Hardcover): 9781943657605
Publisher: Casa Carlini