A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation.[...]
Adam Zamoyski's bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history.[...]
Following on from his epic '1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow', bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna.[...]
The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe.[...]
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation.[...]
A new edition of Adam Zamoyski's definitive biography of Chopin, first published in 1979 and unavailable in English for many years. Few composers elicit such strong emotions as Chopin. Few have been more revered and cherished. And few have had so much sentimental nonsense written about them. Publish[...]
Following Napoleon's defeat and exile in 1814, the future of the European continent hung in the balance. Eager to negotiate a lasting, workable peace, representatives of Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia--along with a host of lesser nations--gathered in Vienna for an eight-month-long political c[...]
Napoleons invasjon av Russland og det grusomme tilbaketoget fra Moskva var et militært epos og en menneskelig tragedie. Denne boken er en mesterlig fortelling om et vendepunkt i europeisk historie - både en gripende fortelling om den individuelle fotsoldaten og en omfattende beretning om en urolig[...]
Utanför Warszawas portar utkämpades sommaren 1920 ett slag vars historiska betydelse kan jämställas med Marathons och Waterloos. Men trots att dess konsekvenser kom att bli dramatiska och ödesdigra, har historien om hur Lenin var en hårsmån från att tillintetgöra fredsfördraget från Versa[...]