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Adam Zamoyski was born in New York and educated at Oxford. He is the author of Moscow 1812. He lives in London.
This sequel to Zamoyski's fine Moscow 1812 (2004) shifts from military to diplomatic affairs surrounding the defeat of Napoleonic France and the disposal of its empire. Zamoyski narrates their course from 1813, when Russia's Alexander I decided to continue the war rather than settle with Napoleon, to 1815 and the latter's final Waterloo. The enigmatic personality of Alexander, a mystic, a self-regarding liberal, and a maladroit negotiator, joins Zamoyski's well-drawn portraits of the czar's chief interlocutors: Austria's Metternich, Prussia's Hardenberg, and Britain's Castlereagh. The intimacy of this cavalcade, which followed the allied armies into France, adjourned to London for a fête, and got down to brass tacks in the landmark Congress of Vienna, cues Zamoyski for the atmospheric details of travel, fashion, dances, and assignations. Zamoyski more centrally attends to the great power fundamentals of redrawing Europe's map as they played out in têtes-à-têtes among the principals and with France's crafty cynic Talleyrand. Underscoring the influence of personality on history, Zamoyski's fast-moving chronicle will enthrall the diplomacy audience. Taylor, Gilbert
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- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0007197578
- ISBN 13 9780007197576
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. List of illustrations, list of maps, introduction by author, notes, bibliography and index stop illustrated end pages, showing the signatories of Congress of Vienna. The text is illustrated with two, of eight pages each, black-and-white and colour reproductions of contemporary artwork. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with gilt and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. After the disastrous showing in Russia, Napoleon's grip on Europe started to fail. There then became a scramble by the most powerful states to acquire territory, and, quoting the front fold over panel blurb " . in which countries were traded as if they had been private estates and their inhabitants counted like cattle. The result, fixed at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, not only laid the foundations of the European world as we know it; it put in place a social order and the security system that lie at the root of many of the problems which dog the world today." Minor rubbing of the book corners and there is a bump to the lower left hand corner of the front panel. A little ruffling of the top dustwrapper edge and rubbing of the panels. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [4] V - XVIII, 634, [4] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; 19th century; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0007197578. ISBN/EAN: 9780007197576. Inventory No: 0290056. Seller Inventory # 0290056
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. H/B 634 pages, condition is very good. Following on from his epic and bestselling '1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow' Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna [1813-15], which was to bring about the political reshaping of Europe and whose legacy affected international relations for a century. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Continent was to be reconstructed after his defeat. There were many who dreamed of a peace to end all wars, in which the interests of peoples as well as those of rulers would be taken into account. But what followed was an unseemly and at times brutal scramble for territory by the most powerful states, in which countries were traded as if they had been private and their inhabitants counted like cattle. The results, fixed at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, not only laid the foundations of the European world we know; it put in place a social order and a security system that lie at the root of many of the problems which dog the world today. Although the defining moments took place in Vienna, and the principle players included Tsar Alexander I of Russia, the Austrian Chancellor Metternich, the Duke of Wellington and the French master of diplomacy Talleyrand, as well as Napoleon himself, the accepted view of the gathering of statesmen reordering the Continent in elegant salons is a false one. Many of the crucial questions were decided on the battlefield or in squalid roadside cottages amid the vagaries of war. And the proceedings in Vienna itself were not as decorous as is usually represented. Drawing on a wide range of first-hand sources in six languages, which include not only official documents, private letters, diaries and first-hand accounts, but also the reports of police spies and informers. Seller Inventory # 083933
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