Promotional Information

/ Key title The Sunday Times bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and eventual retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on the subsequent course of Russian and European history. / A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller in hardback / It received a phenomenal level of review coverage, and quickly became the 'must read' non fiction title of spring 2004. / Chosen as a Book of the Year in the Sunday Telegraph by Max Hastings, Douglas Hurd and Anne Applebaum. / The hardback has sold over 12,000 copies in the UK to date / Competition: Stalingrad and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor; Wellington's Smallest Victory by Peter Hofschroer

About the Author

Adam Zamoyski was born in New York, 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, as well as a history of Poland and Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries 1776 - 1871.

Reviews

'Zamoyski's book is a brilliant piece of narrative history, full of sparkling set-pieces, a wholly fascinating account of what must be reckoned one of the greatest military disasters of all time.' Sunday Telegraph 'No review can do justice to the scholarly integrity and human sensitivity of this book, or to the horror is describes ! 1812 is one of the greatest stories ever told.' Christopher Woodward, Spectator 'Adam Zamoyski's account of the 1812 campaign is so brilliant that it is impossible to put the book aside ! A master craftsman at work.' Sunday Times 'An utterly admirable book. It combines clarity of thought and prose with a strong narrative drive.' Daily Telegraph