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1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski
$24.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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 ...Show more
1812 - Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
An epic account of Napoleon
Chopin by Adam Zamoyski
$21.99 AUD
Category: Music
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. Published ...Show more
Chopin : Prince of the Romantics by Adam Zamoyski
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A completely new edition of the definitive biography of Chopin, unavailable for many years, by one of the finest of contemporary European historians. Two centuries have passed since Chopin's birth, yet his legacy is all around us today. The quiet revolution he wrought influenced the development of Weste ...Show more
Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries 1776-1871 by Adam Zamoyski
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life. Holy Madness probes into the psyche that was responsible for so many of the founding events of our modern world, and into the instincts that inspire ...Show more
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth by Adam Zamoyski
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: near fine
'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski's portrait of Napoleon is historical biography a ...Show more
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth by Adam Zamoyski
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of StalingradA landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski's portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at ...Show more
Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion and espionage. Adam Zamoyski explores the struggle by governments to police a world seemingly threatened by obscure forces and revolutionary conspiracy dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation - and their exploitation of the threat for ...Show more
Poland : A History by Adam Zamoyski
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A substantially revised and updated edition of the author's classic 1987 book, 'The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and their Culture', which has been out of print since 2001. When Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland, in the 1980s, the country was in a state of subjugation, ...Show more
Poland: A History by Adam Zamoyski
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
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. In 1797, Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland amon ...Show more
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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 wa ...Show more
Rites of Peace : The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski
$24.99 AUD
Category: 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. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Con ...Show more