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Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries 1776-1871 by Adam Zamoyski
34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural 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
Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess by Adam Zamoyski
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man’s world. Her aristocratic position enmeshed her in high politics and close encounters wi ...Show more
Napoleon - A Brilliant Leader Who Helped Shape the Modern World? or a Brutal Tyrant? by Adam Zamoyski
19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Born in Corsica, and a brilliant military leader during the French revolution, Napoleon became Emperor in 1804 and dominated European and indeed global affairs for the next ten years, leading France against a series of coalitions in what were later called the Napoleonic wars. His victories are the stuff ...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
Poland: A History by Adam Zamoyski
24.99 AUD
Category: Popular 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
The Last King of Poland by Adam Zamoyski
34.99 AUD
Category: History
A superb study of one of the most important, romantic and dynamic figures of European history. 'A fine book ... the web of political intrigue unfolds like an appetising detective novel' Scotsman The last king of Poland owed his throne largely to his youthful romance with the future Catherine the Great ...Show more
The Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski
24.99 AUD
Category: History
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. The advent of the French Revolut ...Show more
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