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Napoleon

Review of Books

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2017

August 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment

Recently published books of Irish and Irish American interest. Napoleon’s Doctor: The St. Helena Diary of Barry O’Meara By Dr. Hubert O’Connor The last few years of the great Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s life were spent with an Irishman. That Irishman was Barry O’Meara, a Dublin-born surgeon who caught the Emperor’s attention during his surrender on the British warship … [Read more...] about Review of Books

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