Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871 pdf

Mr Adam ZAMOYSKI is an award-winning British historian and author of the best-selling epic "1812. Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow" and its sequel "Rites of Peace. The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna". Mr ZAMOYSKI has published several other acclaimed books on key figures and aspects of European and world history. His comprehensive history of Poland, "The Polish Way", not only featured in the best seller lists for several weeks when it came out in 1987, but has never been out of print since. He is also a distinguished commentator and reviewer, and has contributed to all the major British papers and periodicals and lectured widely in England, Europe and the United States.

Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871 pdf by Adam Zamoyski

"Entertaining and thought-provoking." (Times Literary Supplement) "Zamoyski skillfully brings together all the strains of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century nationalism, from the American Revolution to the Paris Commune, showing how quasi-religious idealism prepared the way for both fascism and communism. . . . A stimulating and finely written book." (Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad) From the first shots of the American Revolution in 1776 to the last agony of the Paris Commune in 1871, Adam Zamoyski recreates an era when determined men and women were willing to die for the cause of an idealized nation, and who transformed the society of Europe and its colonies. Moving fluidly through the history of the tumultuous years that embraced the American and French revolutions, the Irish Rebellion, the Polish uprisings, the liberation of South America, and the Italian Risorgimento, Holy Madness captures the passion of revolutionary figures who were caught up in the fervor of the nationalist crusade, while exposing the dangerous fallacies of their idealism.