Phantom Terror - The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848

Informationen zum Autor Adam Zamoyski was born in New York, was educated at Oxford, and lives in London. A full-time writer, he has written biographies of ‘Chopin’ (Collins 1979), ‘Paderewski’, and ‘The Last King of Poland’,‘1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow’ and ‘Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna’.

Report

'Vivid, terrifying and often quite funny ... an interesting take on 1848 ... this superbly drawn story is full of painful allegories' The Times
'Splendidly provocative ... perceptive and often amusing ... full of arresting details and sharp asides ... Adam Zamoyski writes like a dancer at a court ball: gracious, patrician, masterful, sure-footed ... Phantom Terror is a thumping great pleasure to read ... history at its best' Spectator
'Scintillating and original' Economist
'We know the Napoleonic era well, but the Decades after Napoleon's fall are often neglected. Adam Zamoyski covers those years, showing how fear of revolution caused the autocrats of Europe to repress freedom on an unprecedented scale' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Mail on Sunday

Product details

• Authors: Adam Zamoyski
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.08.2015
• EAN: 9780007282777
• ISBN: 978-0-00-728277-7
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 40 mm
• Series: William Collins
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book