Adam Zamoyski

Adam Zamoyski
Born	Adam Stefan Zamoyski (1949-01-11)11 January 1949 New York City, United States
Occupation(s)	Historian, author
Spouse	Emma Sergeant ​ (m.2001)​
Parents	CountStefan Adam Zamoyski(father) Princess Elżbieta Czartoryska (mother)
Family	Zamoyski

Adam Zamoyski(born 11 January 1949) is a British historian and author descended from the historically importantPolish nobility.

Personal life

Born inNew York Cityin 1949, as Adam Stefan Zamoyski, the youngest son of CountStefan Zamoyski(1904–1976), member of theZamoyski familyand his wife, Princess ElizabethCzartoryska(1905–1989), who left their homeland when it was invaded byGermanyand theSoviet Unionin 1939. When the Soviets took power at the end ofWorld War II,they found themselves stranded in the West, eventually settling in London.

Zamoyski has dual Polish-British nationality. He was brought up inEnglandand educated at St Philip's Preparatory School,The Queen's College, Oxford,where he read History and Modern Languages (BA Hons. 1970, MA Hons 1974).

Zamoyski lives in London with his wife, the painter Emma Sergeant (b. 1959), daughter ofSir Patrick John Rushton Sergeant.He first visited Poland in the 1960s and now has a second home in an area of greatbiodiversitynear Zamość, where he has planted over a thousand trees and restored a number of traditional wooden cottages.

Career

Zamoyski is a historian and author, with numerous books including his history of Poland,The Polish Way,andMoscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March,his account ofNapoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. His biography ofFrédéric Chopin,Chopin. Prince of the Romantics,was serialised as the 'Book of the Week' onBBC Radio 4in 2012.His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Books

• — (1979).Chopin: A Biography.London: Collins.ISBN0-00-216089-7.
  • — (1980).Chopin: A New Biography(1st USA ed.). Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday.ISBN0-385-13597-1.
  • — (2010).Chopin: Prince of the Romantics(revised ed.). London:HarperCollins.ISBN978-0-00-735182-4.
• — (1981).The Battle for the Marchlands: A History of the 1920 Polish-Soviet War.Boulder: East European Monographs.
• — (1982).Paderewski. A Biography.London: Collins.
• — (1987).The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture.London: John Murray.
• — (1992).The Last King of Poland.London: Jonathan Cape.
• — (1995).The Forgotten Few: The Polish Air Force in the Second World War.London: John Murray.
• — (1999).Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries 1776–1871.London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
• — (2001).Poland: A Traveller's Gazetteer.London: John Murray.
• — (2001).The Czartoryski Museum.London: Azimuth Editions.
• — (2004).Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow.New York: HarperCollins.
• — (2007).Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon & the Congress of Vienna.London: HarperCollins.ISBN9780060775186.
• — (2008).Warsaw 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe.London: HarperCollins.
• — (2009).Poland: A History.London:HarperPress.
• — (2014).Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789–1848.London:William Collins.
• — (2018).Napoleon. The Man Behind the Myth.London: William Collins.

Contributions and other publications

• Sienkiewicz, Henryk(1990).Charcoal Sketches and Other Tales.Translated by Adam Zamoyski. London: Angel Books.ISBN978-0-946162-32-1.
• — (2018).Napoleon.All You Need to Know... London: Connell Publishing.ISBN978-1-912568-01-7.

See also

• List of Polish people

External links

• Official website