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Exclusive Interview: author and historian Adam Zamoyski on Napoleon Bonaparte, the Enlightenment, the Catholic Church and Poland
December 14, 2023
Adam Zamoyski is a British historian of Polish origin. He has written numerous highly acclaimed books, including Poland: A History, and Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871. He is also an expert on Napoleon, having written the 2019 biography Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth, 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow and its sequel, Rites of Peace.
Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ manages the impressive feat of turning a ‘great man’ of history into an entirely uninteresting character
December 04, 2023
A sadly common feature of human beings is our ability to take something great and reduce it to something tawdry. Think of the wonder of air travel and our typical experience of airports. Think of the incomparable sacrifice of the Catholic Mass and the tawdry and commonplace ways in which it is all too often
How inept leadership nearly destroyed the Knights of Malta – in 1798
April 28, 2017
The Knights were conquered by Napoleon and almost co-opted by the Tsar. But they survived
What’s inside this week’s magazine?
July 14, 2016
Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald
Who was a better man, Napoleon or Wellington?
June 18, 2015
Written by the winners, history has been harsh to the French emperor
Wellington – the Iron Irishman
June 18, 2015
Wellington was born in Ireland, once spoke with a thick brogue, and relied on Irish troops and officers to defeat Napoleon. Yet history portrays him as scorning his background
Books blog: What Ed Miliband could have learned from Napoleon
May 12, 2015
Andrew Roberts' excellent biography of Napoleon Bonaparte should have been on the outgoing Labour leader's reading list
Napoleon the Great review: six million lives sacrificed for one giant ego
January 15, 2015
A harrowing new biography shows that from the moment Napoleon took power he was obsessed with waging war
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