Adam Zamoyski (born 11 January 1949) is a British historian and author.

Personal life

Born in

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in 1949, Adam Stefan Zamoyski was brought up in England and educated at St Philip's Preparatory School,

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, where he read History and Modern Languages (BA Hons. 1970, MA Hons 1974). Zamoyski has dual Polish-British nationality and speaks English, Polish, French, Italian and Russian. His parents, Count Stefan Zamoyski (1904–1976) and Princess Elizabeth Czartoryska (1905–1989), left their homeland when it was invaded by

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and

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in 1939. When the Soviets took power at end of

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, they found themselves stranded in the West, eventually settling in London. Zamoyski lives in London with his wife, the painter Emma Sergeant. He first visited Poland in the 1960s and now has a second home in an area of great

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near Zamość, where he has planted over a thousand trees and restored a number of traditional wooden cottages.

Career

Zamoyski is a freelance historian and author, with numerous books including his history of Poland, ''The Polish Way'', and '' Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March'', his account of

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's invasion of Russia in 1812. His biography of Frédéric Chopin, ''Chopin. Prince of the Romantics'', was serialised as the '

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' on

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in 2012. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Zamoyski has lectured across Europe, the US and Australia, as well as featuring in television and radio broadcasts. Various debates in which he has taken part are accessible online.

Books

* ** ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Most of Zamoyski's books are available as

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Contributions and other publications

* * * * Nine entries by Zamoyski in

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, London 1996. * * * * From 2003 to 2019 Zamoyski wrote over a dozen articles for ''

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''.Adam Zamoyski
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