Adam Zamoyski

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 among themselves, rewriting Polish history to show that they had brought much-needed civilisation to a primitive backwater. But the country they wiped off the map had been one of Europes largest and most richly varied, born of diverse cultural traditions and one of the boldest constitutional experiments ever attempted. Its destruction ultimately led to two world wars and the Cold War.

A biografia definitiva de Napoleão. O historiador Adam Zamoyski apresenta o homem para além da lenda. Um retrato íntimo e completo do homem que mudou a História.Napoleão inspira visões apaixonadas e,

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

Con fuerza narrativa, precisión y rigor, Zamoyski profundiza en uno de los episodios más determinantes de la historia de Europa moderna. La trágica epopeya de la invasión napoleónica de Rusia, sus razones estrategicas y su trasfondo politico son explicadas con claridad y abundante documentacion. Es ta es la cronica del desastre que vivio un ejercito acostumbrado a grandes victorias, y que finalmente se vio doblegado por el hambre, el frio y la extenuacion.La campaña rusa de Napoleon, su derrota y desventura en las heladas estepas, es uno de los momentos determinantes de la Europa moderna. El autor ha conseguido acercar las interioridades de la politica de alianzas y la crudeza de la batalla con un lenguaje accesible y facil para todo tipo de lectores.

Napoleão inspira visões apaixonadas e, muitas vezes, conflitantes. Seria ele um gênio divino, um monstro megalomaníaco, um guerreiro compulsivo ou apenas um pequeno ditador desagradável? Embora exibi

A Spectator Best Book of the YearTrawling 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 with Frederick the Great Benjamin Franklin Rousseau Joseph II Marie Antoinette and Tsar Alexander I and earned her the enmity of Catherine the Great She lived through revolution and no less than five wars in which her cherished homes were devastated her possessions looted and her children scattered Caught up in tempestuous love affairs which led her to nervous breakdown and the brink of suicide exploited by her lovers she remained undaunted and liberated herself through education And unusually for her time she became a caring mother devoted to her children She learned much by travelling extensively around Europe at a time of political and ideological change and her observations particularly on Georgian Britain are remarkable She gradually won the admiration of learned men and intellectual honours She pioneered schooling for children of the poor and developed her own educational methods Fascinated by the power of objects to

Contiene ilustraciones y mapas. Por dramáticos y trascendentales que fueran, que lo fueron, los acontecimientos que se produjeron a las puertas de Varsovia en agosto de 1920, han caído en el olvido. Resulta aun mas sorprendente porque tuvieron un profundo efecto sobre la politica de las decadas de 1920 y 1930, el desarrollo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y los acuerdos de paz de 1945. No es dificil descubrir las razones de este eclipsamiento. Una es que si bien la batalla altero el curso de la historia, lo que hizo fue impedir que sucediera algo en vez de darle la vuelta; debido a esto, no tuvo impacto alguno sobre los no implicados. Otro de los motivos es que los historiadores de la epoca estaban fundamentalmente interesados en otras cuestiones, como redactar versiones triunfalistas de la Gran Guerra desde los diversos puntos de vista nacionales. Si mencionaban la batalla de Varsovia, tendian a seguir la linea trazada por los historiadores sovieticos que, renuentes a aceptar que su pais hubiera perdido la contienda, la consideraban parte de la guerra civil rusa, en la que los sovieticos habian triunfado. Por ultimo, la Segunda Guerra Mundial invirtio el resultado del enfrentamiento de 1920 que, desde una perspectiva mas amplia de los acontecimientos, se convirtio aparentemente en irrelevante.