The book Amelia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) buys in Borders is 'Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life' by Alan Schom, a historian specialising in French history and Pulitzer Prime nominated for his work on Napoleon. In 'The Terminal' Amelia puts forward a revisionist theory about Napoleon's death. Alan Schom's book was controversial at the time of release as it put forward a highly revisionist view of Napoleon: it revealed 'Napoleon's destructive personality to friends and subjected country, his love of conquest, subjugation and power. He literally held every country in Western and central Europe captive, ensured by the presence of French bayonets, their taxes going to Paris. Napoleon's attempt to exclude England from Europe resulted in the destruction of that contient's commerce and economy, resulting in great hardship. A paranoid egotist, everything he did was for himself. His wars resulted in the deaths of one million Frenchmen--excluding those his enemies. Many tens of thousands of women and girls were raped by his troops as they marched through Europe over a period of 15 years. Napoleon was in the final analysis, a terrorist, the worst in European history until the arrival of Hitler and Stalin'

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