Adam Zamoyski: 9 books

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. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how...

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. In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating...

The definitive biography of Napoleon, revealing the true man behind the legend "What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him...

For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion, convinced that their power-and their heads-were at risk. Driven by paranoia, they...

Mit seinen Napoleon-Büchern "1812“ und "1815“ ist Adam Zamoyski auch in Deutschland zum Bestsellerautor geworden. Nun erzählt der polnisch-britische Historiker, wie nach dem Ende Napoleons aus der Angst der Herrschenden vor Terror und Revolution eine paranoide Politik der Unterdrückung...

La campagna di Napoleone in Russia e la terribile ritirata del suo esercito da Mosca furono una catastrofe militare e umana senza precedenti: il primo esempio nella storia di “guerra totale”, che vide opporsi due grandi potenze, due culture diversissime, due imperi sterminati. Posta in gioco finale:...

Selten in der Geschichte gab es an einem Ort so viel Scharfsinn und Intrigen, so viel Gier, Bestechung, Spionage, Sex und Pracht wie auf dem Wiener Kongress. Während die mächtigsten Männer Europas neue Grenzlinien über die Karte des Kontinents ziehen und Entscheidungen von epochaler Tragweite...

Napoleons Feldzug in Rußland war das vielleicht größte militärische Desaster aller Zeiten und eine menschliche Tragödie von beispiellosen Ausmaßen das erste historische Beispiel eines totalen Krieges. Adam Zamoyski hat mit 1812 das meisterhafte Epos über die Hybris eines Eroberers, den Wahnsinn...

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. In 1920 the new Soviet state was a mess, following a brutal civil war, and the best...