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	Anne Applebaum -- Out in the Cold
		MOSCOW 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March By Adam Zamoyski HarperCollins, pp.
		Zamoyski, a British historian of Polish origin and the author of numerous books, wanted to use firsthand accounts and memoirs in order to put right the facts and bring alive the history in a way that would make sense to contemporary readers.
		Zamoyski -- whom, I should add here, I met many years ago -- was aided by being able to speak most of the languages used by the commanders and soldiers who fought in Napoleon's Grande Armee, at the time the largest military force ever assembled.
	www.anneapplebaum.com /other/2004/08_08_wpost_cold.html (839 words)

	Christopher Clark on Rites of Peace by Adam Zamoyski - Literary Review -
		Zamoyski weaves his high-political narrative into an account of the world of travel, consumption, sociability and sex that surrounded the summiteers.
		The protagonists of Zamoyski's account are forever arriving and departing in mud-spattered carriages, recovering from sea-sickness, searching for furniture to fill empty apartments, and coping with the insolence of unfamiliar servants.
		Zamoyski has a sharp eye for the vanity of prominent men and for the discrepancies between intention and outcome.
	www.literaryreview.co.uk /clark_03_07.html (1321 words)

	wladyslaw zamoyski
		An unstintingly generous and devoted patriot, Zamoyski was indifferent to the luxuries that were the norm amongst his peers, eating simple potatoes and cabbage, travelling fourth class on the train, and sleeping in quarters that were similar to a monk's cell.
		His family was that rare thing - a dynasty that consistently gave rise to remarkable figures, yet remarkable not for the vast numbers of wild boar and stags that were dispatched on their estates, but the unusual array of inspired characters that rose to the national cause.
		Zamoyski passed away in 1923, and after the Second World War the foundation was liquidated by the Communist government.
	www.zakopane-life.com /poland/wladyslaw-zamoyski (1004 words)

	Adam Zamoyski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 11, 1949 in New York, United States) is a historian and a member of the Zamoyski ancient Polish nobility family.
		Zamoyski was born in New York but raised in England and educated at Downside and Queen's College in Oxford.
		He is Chairman of Board of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adam_Zamoyski (215 words)

	Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March - ReadingBee.com
		The outcome, Zamoyski shows, turned on logistics, with the French advancing inexorably farther from their bases, and strategy, in which Napoleon failed either to destroy the Russian army in a single campaign or to accept a limited victory in the first year and renew the campaign in 1813.
		In this gripping, authoritative account, Adam Zamoyski has drawn on the latest Russian research, as well as a vast pool of firsthand accounts in French, Russian, German, Polish, and Italian, to paint a vivid picture of the experiences of soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict.
		Adam Zamoyski was born in New York and educated at Oxford.
	www.readingbee.com /review/book0061075582.html (2208 words)

	Battle of Borodino - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Russian counter-attack was broken by artillery; as night fell, both sides broke away and the Russian forces retreated, at first only a few miles, but later that night they began to withdraw all the way past Moscow.
		The French are said to have suffered 28,000 dead and wounded including 48 generals, according to historian Adam Zamoyski.
		Adam Zamoyski, in his in depth account of the Russian campaign, provides figures of 1,400,000 rounds being discharged by the French infantry and a further 60,000 to 91,000 by the artillery.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Borodino (1032 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Out in the Cold
		But all of the patriotism, mythology, fiction and song that followed the events of that year has, in the subsequent two centuries, nearly obscured the story of the invasion itself.
		Zamoyski, a British historian of Polish origin and the author of numerous books, wanted to use firsthand accounts and memoirs in order to put right the facts and bring alive the history in a way that would make sense to contemporary readers.
		Zamoyski -- whom, I should add here, I met many years ago -- was aided by being able to speak most of the languages used by the commanders and soldiers who fought in Napoleon's Grande Armée, at the time the largest military force ever assembled.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A44099-2004Aug5?language=printer (832 words)

	Moscow 1812 by Adam Zamoyski \| PopMatters Book Review
		Adam Zamoyski's new account of the Russian campaign of 1812 is not going to change that, but if any hefty history book could do the trick, this would be the one.
		Perhaps not surprisingly, given Zamoyski's national heritage (he is descended from Polish nobility and is the author of numerous Polish history texts), the author identifies Poland as the deal-breaker in the negotiations between France and Russia.
		Zamoyski consults primary sources -- letters, journals, memoirs, in French, Russian, German, Italian, and Polish -- to construct a history of the campaign that is both thorough and engaging.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/m/moscow-1812.shtml (1306 words)

	Literary Review - Richard Overy on Warsaw 1920 by Adam Zamoyski
		Zamoyski tells the subsequent story of how Pilsudski, with Poland facing almost sure defeat, plucked victory from the Soviet grasp by a stratagem so daring that a comparison with Napoleon would not be out of place.
		Zamoyski makes no attempt to assess whether this was the sheer fantasy it seems to have been and uses these crude ambitions to give greater historical significance to the Warsaw battle.
		Zamoyski makes it clear that Tukhachevsky, who himself had dreams of a Napoleonic future, was quite happy to win victory over the Poles for himself.
	www.literaryreview.co.uk /overy_02_08.html (1031 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow: Books: Adam Zamoyski (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zamoyski gives us a lot of detail about the retreat, all the way down to the cannibalism at the end when there was no food to be had.
		Adam Zamoyski's book is a fine narrative history of the period leading up to and the actual invasion of Russia by Napoleon's France in 1812.
		Zamoyski's "1812" serves up a wealth of detail about the French invasion, much of it in the form of eye-witness accounts which gives the reader an insight into the mood of the army at various stages of the campaign and the horrific conditions they suffered.
	www.amazon.co.uk /1812-Napoleons-Fatal-March-Moscow/dp/0007123752 (2410 words)

	Sarmatian Review XVIII.1: Zamoyski
		Adam Zamoyski's readable history of the Polish Air Force does much to dispel the misconception of modern Polish military ineptitude.
		Second, Zamoyski's forgotten few provide additional evidence for a feature of the Polish character that should be obvious to everyone, but for some strange reason is not: Poles are not very mean or militant.
		Zamoyski, however, provides no evidence that the pilots were in any way inclined to treat the enemy as an object to be hated and annihilated, the way the German and Russian troops did in accordance with their commitment to total warfare.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/198/zamoyski.html (1321 words)

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		Adam Zamoyski has written a history of revolutions, and of the romantic and sometimes ridiculous revolutionaries who inspired them.
		Zamoyski manages to flesh out these events with well-chosen detail and a fine sense of the touching comic-heroics they often entailed, as well as the bloodletting and the horror.
		As a historian of Poland (his The Last King of Poland was particularly highly praised), Zamoyski untangles the many uprisings in Eastern Europe with particular aplomb, but his account of France is also adept, with a vivid account of the idealism of the Paris Commune, overthrown in 1871.
	www.bookhead.co.uk /0297815717.aspx (363 words)

	Holy Madness
		This period is the subject of “Holy Madness.” As the author points out in the Preface (the author is Adam Zamoyski: born in New York, settled in London, with several titles on Polish history to his credit), it really does not constitute a “subject” at all.
		Zamoyski's account of the American Revolution is perhaps unnecessarily jaundiced, giving excessive attention to the persecution of loyalists, as well as to George Washington's interest in acquiring land that the British government wanted to reserve for the Indians.
		Adam Weishaupt's Illuminati do put in an appearance in the book, but the author believes that most of the activities attributed to them were fantasies of the police.
	pages.prodigy.net /aesir/homa.htm (2625 words)

	Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe \| Adam Zamoyski \| Review by The Spectator
		Such is the question that Adam Zamoyski poses at the beginning of his account of the war between Lenin’s Soviet Russia and Pilsudski’s Catholic Poland, fought in the twilight between the first and second world wars.
		Across these battlefields Zamoyski proves to be a sure-footed guide with a rare capacity for casting light into dark corners, to pierce the fog of war and to make what at first seems incomprehensible easy to understand — processes which are greatly facilitated by a series of excellent sketch maps.
		Zamoyski’s battle pictures, indeed, are reminiscent of Tolstoy and they have the added advantage of being without the latter’s rather strange view of history.
	www.spectator.co.uk /the-magazine/books/539786/keeping-the-bear-at-bay.thtml (941 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zamoyski writes that Napoleon had calculated that he would be able to defeat Russia within three months.
		Zamoyski quotes from accounts of the survivors to prove that despair drove some to cannibalism.
		Zamoyski’s narrative, based on the memoirs of Russian, French, Polish and German participants of the great drama that unfolded in 1812, is thought-provoking.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040618/asp/opinion/story_3378252.asp (572 words)

	PolSoc
		Distinguished historian and bestselling author of "1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow", Count Adam Zamoyski was born in New York but raised in England and educated at Queen's College, Oxford.
		Kozlowka Palace, the seat of the Zamoyskis, is one of the best preserved palaces in the country and a reminder of their importance.
		Receiving Count Adam Zamoyski is, therefore, a great privilege for both the city of Bristol and the University.
	www.bris.ac.uk /depts/union/polishsociety/Zamoyski.html (535 words)

	Reviews of Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March by Adam Zamoyski 0061075582 - Book Cost (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In his introduction, Zamoyski acknowleges that in writing on Napoleon's Russian Campaign, the author is treading familar scholastic ground.
		Zamoyski does opine however that Napoleon's chances of success were not the greatest and that Napoleon (as well as his adversaries) were ever-mindful of the disasters of Charles XII.
		You could say that this is the Polish version of of the campaign of 1812, as Zamoyski's prime mission seems to agrandize the role of Polish troops that invaded with his hero Napoleon, and belittle anything Russian.
	www.bookcost.com /review/0061075582 (662 words)

	[ whollyshift.info \| Adam Zamoyski Resources ] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Our Featured Adam Zamoyski take slice on Adam Zamoyski Category: Adam Zamoyski Adam Zamoyski Noble Family Zamoyski Coat of Arms Jelita Parents Stefan Adam Zamoyski ElÅ¼bieta Czartoryska Consorts Emma Sergeant Children (?) Date of Birth January 11, 1949 Place of Birth New York, USA Date of Death - Place of Death -
		January 11, 1949 in New York, United States) is a historian 'n a representative of the Zamoyski ancient Polish nobility family.
		Zamoyski was inborn in New York but raised in England 'n well-taught at Downside 'n Queen's College in Oxford.
	www.whollyshift.info /Adam_Zamoyski (172 words)

	Amazon.com: Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna: Adam Zamoyski: Books
		This sequel to Zamoyski's fine Moscow 1812 (2004) shifts from military to diplomatic affairs surrounding the defeat of Napoleonic France and the disposal of its empire.
		Zamoyski narrates their course from 1813, when Russia's Alexander I decided to continue the war rather than settle with Napoleon, to 1815 and the latter's final Waterloo.
		Internationally bestselling author Adam Zamoyski draws on a wide range of original sources, which include not only official documents, private letters, diaries, and firsthand accounts, but also the reports of police spies and informers, to reveal the steamy atmosphere of greed and lust in which the new Europe was forged.
	www.amazon.com /Rites-Peace-Napoleon-Congress-Vienna/dp/0060775181 (806 words)

	Book review: Adam Zamoyski's Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
		Zamoyski’s rich detail is included, unfortunately almost to a fault.
		Zamoyski spends an incredible amount of time on the sexual escapades and romantic dalliances of the attendees, from the Russian Tsar to Metternich and Talleyrand of France.
		Zamoyski is able to provide this detail because Metternich had the Austrian police keep close tabs on every delegate, and the police reports are extensive.
	www.curledup.com /ritesofp.htm (1055 words)

	Ingram Library Services: Further Developments
		Napoleon's invasion of Russia and his ensuing terrible retreat from Moscow played out as military epic and human tragedy on a colossal scale—history's first example of total war.
		In this gripping, authoritative account, Adam Zamoyski has drawn on the latest Russian research—as well as a vast pool of firsthand accounts in French, Russian, German, Polish, and Italian—to paint a vivid picture of the experiences of soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict.
		"Adam Zamoyski’s account of the 1812 campaign is so brilliant that it is impossible to put the book aside."
	www.ingramlibrary.com /nwsltr_fd/0804/cd/ad_harper1.html (171 words)

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		Zamoyski's main goal was to tell the story of the destruction of the Gradee Armee at the hands of the Russians - or to be more correct, the Russian winters.
		In so doing, Zamoyski does not attempt to posit that the Napoleon's defeat was inevitable.
		Sorry Adam, but I've read far too much about the Napoleonic wars to be impressed with this sad attempt.
	www.oldspeed.com /vwaws/0061075582.htm (1071 words)

	Amazon.com: Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March: Adam Zamoyski: Books
		The outcome, Zamoyski shows, turned on logistics, with the French advancing inexorably farther from their bases, and strategy, in which Napoleon failed either to destroy the Russian army in a single campaign or to accept a limited victory in the first year and renew the campaign in 1813.
		The result was the retreat from Moscow, and the author spares none of the harrowing details of cold, storm, starvation and the vigorous efforts of the Russians to turn defeat into disaster.
		Zamoyski -- whom, I should add here, I met many years ago -- was aided by being able to speak most of the languages used by the commanders and soldiers who fought in Napoleon's Grande Armée, at the time the largest military force ever assembled.
	www.amazon.com /Moscow-1812-Napoleons-Fatal-March/dp/0061075582 (1400 words)

	Adam Zamoyski - 1812 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Adam Zamoyski heeft zich voor 1812 gebaseerd op de meest recente Russische research, maar ook op een groot aantal ooggetuigenverslagen uit heel Europa, om een overtuigend beeld te kunnen schetsen van de ervaringen van soldaten en burgers aan beide zijden van het conflict.
		Nu, bijna twee eeuwen na dat drama, is Adam Zamoyski's 1812 meer dan een van de beste; het is waarschijnlijk hét beste – vanwege de draagwijdte en het erudiete karakter ervan, en vanwege zijn uitmuntende stijl.
		Historicus Adam Zamoyski werd geboren in New York, maar bracht het grootste deel van zijn leven in Engeland door.
	www.bookman.nl /balans/najaar2004/balans.pl?08 (319 words)

	Fopp books : book : non fiction : 1812 - Napoleons Fatal March On Moscow - Adam Zamoyski (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Adam Zamoyski tells their story with incredible detail and sympathy, drawing on a wealth of first-hand accounts of the tragedy to create a vivid portrait of an unimaginable catastrophe.
		But Tsar Alexander of Russia refused to apply the blockade, and Napoleon decided to bring him to heel.;The brutality of the following military campaign and the importance of its ramifications on Russian, French, German and, indeed, European history and culture cannot be understated.
		Adam Zamoyski's epic, enthralling narrative is the definitive account of the events of that dramatic year.
	www.fopp.co.uk /product_info.php/products_id/20834 (286 words)

	Warsaw 1920, by Adam Zamoyski - Reviews, Books - The Independent
		Adam Zamoyski knows Polish, Russian and European archives as few others do, and writes with the dash of a Polish cavalry officer.
		Zamoyski is indulgent to his beloved Poland in arguing that the 1920 war gave Poland two decades of freedom.
		Now Zamoyski is repaying the compliment as he rightly insists on the centrality of the Polish narrative to understanding Europe.
	www.independent.co.uk /arts-entertainment/books/reviews/warsaw-1920-by-adam-zamoyski-792497.html (849 words)

	Waterstones.com: History and Transport: Holy Madness by Adam Zamoyski (2001)
		Adam Zamoyski traces how worship and dedication originally channelled through the church was refocused on the cause of the people and the nation.
		The Enlightenment and the Romantic movement which they spawned initiated trends towards secularization and new aesthetic sensibilities which amounted to a fundamental disjunction between the ideals and aspirations of the 'ancien regime' and those of the modern world.
		Zamoyski describes these changes and the key figures behind them in this vast and vivid panorama of a book.
	www.waterstones.com /waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=3409679 (471 words)

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