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Margaret Rodenberg’s passion for French history began when she lived in France as a young teen with her US Navy family. An avid traveler who has visited over sixty countries, she has journeyed more than 30,000 miles to conduct Napoleonic research, including to St. Helena Island in the remote South Atlantic. She’s a former businesswoman, an award-winning writer, and a proud director of the Napoleonic Historical Society, a non-profit that promotes knowledge of the Napoleonic era. Her website, www.margaretrodenberg.com, reports on Napoleon’s ongoing presence in world culture. Finding Napoleon is her first novel. She lives near Washington, DC.
Genres: Historical
Margaret Rodenberg recommends
Napoleon's Mirage (2024)
Michelle Cameron
"In an epic tour de force, Napoleon's Mirage tells a cracking good tale of love, culture, and war during Napoleon's quixotic Egyptian Expedition of 1799. Cameron's genius lies in her expert guidance through the era's Middle Eastern morass of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interests, laying raw the humanity and inhumanity of each faction. She deftly reveals young General Napoleon in all his tragic complexity, foreshadowing his future glory and failure. Best of all, the heart of Napoleon's Mirage is a charming love story (begun in Beyond the Ghetto Gates) that twists its way to a surprising end. Kudos for this fascinating, magnificently researched, gripping book!"
The Ways of Water (2023)
Teresa H Janssen
"Building on family lore and deep research, Teresa H. Janssen's The Ways of Water is a young woman's poignant coming-of-age story that reveals a fascinating slice of early 20th century life in the American West."
