`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...

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...

As Adam Zamoyski set out to update The Polish Way, his bestselling first history of Poland, he realized the task required not so much re-writing as re-thinking the known facts well as the assumptions of the past. The events of the last...

Napoleon: A Life von Zamoyski, Adam

Chopin: Der Poet am Piano

Europa zwischen Revolution und Reaktion - die spannendste Epoche des 19. Jahrhunderts Nach der Französischen Revolution und dem Ende der Ära Napoleons 1815 wurden die alten Machtverhältnisse wiederhergestellt. Aus Angst vor den...

"Napoleon: Ein Leben" von Erhard Stölting ist eine umfassende Biografie, die das bewegte Leben Napoleons Bonaparte nachzeichnet. Das Buch beleuchtet seine bescheidenen Anfänge auf Korsika, seinen rasanten Aufstieg zum Kaiser der...

Der Wiener Kongress war einer der ersten Friedenskongresse der Neuzeit. Die damaligen Großmächte England, Russland, Österreich, Preußen und auch Frankreich verhandelten die politische Neuordnung Europas nach dem Sturz Napoleons. Es...

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...

'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...

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...