Adam Zamoyski
Autore di Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
Sull'Autore
Adam Zamoyski was born in New York, was educated at Oxford, & lives in London. His other books include biographies of Chopin & Paderewski & a history of Poland. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Opere di Adam Zamoyski
Chopin A New Biography 1 copia
Opere correlate
What Might Have Been : Leading Historians on Twelve 'What Ifs' of History (2004) — Collaboratore — 185 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Zamoyski, Count Adam Stefan
- Data di nascita
- 1949-01-11
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
USA (birth) - Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
USA - Istruzione
- University of Oxford (The Queen's College)
Downside School, Bath, England, UK - Attività lavorative
- historian
- Relazioni
- Sergeant, Emma (wife)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 22
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 2,822
- Popolarità
- #9,090
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 46
- ISBN
- 130
- Lingue
- 13
- Preferito da
- 11
This book...Well, the author is definitely proud of his ancestors (or namesakes?) Zamoyskys, new members of which he introduces to readers with nearly each passing century. Well, that's mildly amusing, but OK. What I definitely lacked were footnotes and references. Although in the Introduction he explains their absence as removal of unnecessary nuisance to wider audience, and claiming that there's no need for those, since all he says is a scientifically accepted and wildly acknowledged facts, I found several of his assertions if not outright questionable, then at least in need of those abrogated asterisks. Many questions he touches upon are still matters of scientific debates, let alone name calling at international football matches. To give you a taste: When counting languages used in courts of XVI century Lwow, he names quite a few, Armenian, Jewish (which of them), Ukrainian and BELORUSSIAN among others. I mean quite a lot of people wouldn't agree that Belorussian language (with all due respect) was a written language at the time (and some would deny it was fully formed at all back then). I mean I'm not protesting or denying Belorussian it's proper due, but I just want a serious corroboration for a thing served matter of factly. While it's not a trifle for a book of history.
All in all my ideal of a country's history remains The Pursuit of Italy, whose author didn't show the nation as populated mostly with valiant and noble forefathers and surrounded by mostly hapless or conniving neighbors.
P.S. My Spring trip to Poland was awesome.… (altro)