Adam Zamoyski

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Adam Stefan Zamoyski
Count
File:Adam zamoyski.jpg
Zamoyski speaking for the Oxford University Polish Society
Coat of armsJelita
Born11 January 1949
New York City, United States
FamilyZamoyski
Spouse(s)Emma Sergeant
FatherStefan Adam Zamoyski
MotherElżbieta Czartoryska

Count Adam Stefan Zamoyski (born 11 January 1949) is a historian and a member of the ancient Zamoyski family of Polish nobility.

Life

Zamoyski was born in New York City, but was raised in England and was educated at Downside School and The Queen's College, Oxford. He is a freelance historian and author of over a dozen books, including a history of Poland and an account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. He was Chairman of the Management Board of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation from 2008 but was voted out by the Full Foundation's Council on 12 July 2011 and he has nothing more to do with the Foundation. On 16 June 2001 he married the artist Emma Sergeant.

Works

  • Zamoyski, Adam (1980). Chopin: A Biography. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-38513-597-1.
  • Zamoyski, Adam (1982). Paderewski. New York: Aetheneum Books. ISBN 0-68911-248-3.
  • Zamoyski, Adam (1987). The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture. London: John Murray. ISBN 0-53115-069-0.
  • Zamoyski, Adam (1994). The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-78180-200-8.
  • Zamoyski, Adam (1998). The Last King of Poland. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-75380-496-4.
  • Zamoyski, Adam (2001). The Czartoryski Museum. London: Azimuth Editions. ISBN 8-38731-267-3.
  • Zamoyski, Adam (2001). Poland: A Traveller's Gazetteer. London: John Murray. ISBN 0-71955-772-0.
  • Zamoyski, Adam (2001). Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 1-84212-145-6.
  • Zamoyski, Adam (2004). The Forgotten Few: The Polish Air Force in the Second World War. Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 1-84415-090-9.
  • Zamoyski, Adam (2004). Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00712-375-2.
  • Zamoyski, Adam (2007). Rites of Peace, The fall of Napoleon & the congress of Vienna. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00719-757-6.
  • Zamoyski, Adam (2008). Warsaw 1920 - Lenin's failed conquest of Europe. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00722-552-1.

See also

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