Tom ten prezentuje najcenniejsze dzieła malarstwa z najstarszych polskich muzeów: Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie (rok założenia 1879) oraz zapoczątkowanej na przełomie XVIII i XIX wieku w Puławach Kolekcji Książąt Czartoryskich. Zbiory te pozwalają dokładnie prześledzić ewolucję malarstwa polskiego, a także zawierają wiele bardzo cennych dzieł mistrzów europejskich, w tym słynną Damę z łasiczką Leonarda da Vinci. Autorami tekstów są kustosze i pracownicy naukowi obydwu muzeów. Każdy kolejny rozdział to wnikliwy esej o malarstwie danego okresu ilustrowany dziełami...
Tom ten prezentuje najcenniejsze dzieła malarstwa z najstarszych polskich muzeów: Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie (rok założenia 1879) oraz zapocząt...
Zamoyski documents the dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to Western Europe.
Zamoyski documents the dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstaking...
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation.
In 1797, Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland among themselves, rewriting Polish history to show that they had brought much-needed civilisation to a primitive backwater. But the country they wiped off the map had been one of Europe s largest and most richly varied, born of diverse cultural traditions and one of the boldest constitutional...
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition s...
A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation.
The advent of the French Revolution confirmed the worst fears of the rulers of Europe. They saw their states as storm-tossed vessels battered by terrible waves coming from every quarter and threatened by horrific monsters from the deep. Rulers' nerves were further unsettled by the voices of the Enlightenment,...
A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governmen...
A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. Adam Zamoyski's portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at its finest. Beautifully illustrated with portraits done only from life, this magnificent book examines how Napoleone Buonaparte, the boy from Corsica, became 'Napoleon'; how he achieved what he did, and how it came about that he undid it.
A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. Adam Zamoyski's portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at its finest. Beau...
A superb study of one of the most important, romantic and dynamic figures of European history. 'A fine book ... the web of political intrigue unfolds like an appetising detective novel' Scotsman
A superb study of one of the most important, romantic and dynamic figures of European history. 'A fine book ... the web of political intrigue unfold...
From Americas fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life. Holy Madness probes into the psyche that was responsible for so many of the founding events of our modern world, and into the instincts that inspired its most generous and most murderous impulses. It explains how the Enlightenment dislodged Christianity from its central position in the life of European societies and how mans quest for ecstasy and transcendence flooded into areas such as the arts, spawning the Romantic movement. This...
From Americas fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to l...
