British historian Adam Zamoyski is the author of the best-selling 1812. Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow and its sequel Rites of Peace. The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna, as well as several other acclaimed works on key figures and aspects of European history. His comprehensive history of Poland, The Polish Way, not only featured in the best-seller lists for several weeks when it came out in 1987, but was never out of print even after it was superseded by Zamoyski's Poland. A History in 2009. He has also contributed to all the major British papers and periodicals, as well as lecturing widely in England, Europe and the United States, and his books and articles have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
His latest book, Izabela the Valiant. The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess, is a personal quest to discover the historical truth about the life of a remarkable ancestor.
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IZABELA THE VALIANT: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess
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 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.
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