ADAM ZAMOYSKI on pitying Napoleon

Help us produce more episodes by supporting the Napoleonic Quarterly on Patreon: patreon.com/napoleonicquarterly Historian and author Adam Zamoyski discusses the fate of Poland, power politics during the 1792-1815 period and why all decent biographers should seek to empathise with their subjects as human beings, just like the rest of us. This interview was recorded in spring 2020, shortly after the publication of Adam's Napoleon: The Man Behind The Myth. The Intelligence Squared discussion referred to is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQ4TcTcPbI

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