Adam Zamoyski

Adam Zamoyski

Count Adam Zamoyski (born January 11, 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 Queen's College in Oxford. He is Chairman of the Board of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation. On June 16, 2001, in London, England, he married the artist Emma Sergeant.

Works

* "Paderewski", New York, Aetheneum Books, 1982 ISBN-10 0689112483 ISBN-13 978-0689112485.
* "The Polish Way: a Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture", London, John Murray, 1987, ISBN 0-531-15069-0.
* "Chopin: a Biography", New York, Doubleday, 1980, ISBN 0-385-13597-1.
* "The Polish Way: a Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture", New York, Hippocrene Books, 1994, ISBN 0-7818-0200-8.
* "The Last King of Poland", London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998, ISBN 0-7538-0496-4.
* "The Princes Czartoryski Museum", Kraków, The Princes Czartoryski Foundation, 2001, ISBN 83-87312-67-3.
* "Poland: A Traveller's Gazetteer", London, John Murray, 2001, ISBN 0-7195-5772-0.
* "Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871", London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001, ISBN 1-84212-145-6.
* "The Forgotten Few: The Polish Air Force in the Second World War", Pen & Sword Books, 2004, ISBN 1-84415-090-9.
* "", New York, HarperCollins, 2004, ISBN 0-00-712375-2.
* "Rites of Peace, The fall of Napoleon & the congress of Vienna", New York, Harper Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0-00-719757-6
* "Warsaw 1920 - Lenin's failed conquest of Europe", London, Harper Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-00-725786-7

ee also

*List of Poles


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