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I'm Albert Mueller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Adam Zamoyski was born in New York in 1949 1949 but was raised and educated in England where he currently lives.

Behind all of that is a fascinating story.

He was born in 1949 to aristocratic Polish parents,

his father, Count Stephen Zamoyski,

and his mother, the Princess Elizabeth.

They came to the United States

and largely lived in Britain because they had to flee Poland during World War II and in its aftermath.

Their son Adam Zamoysky would later become the author of the best-selling history of that

native land, of Poland.

But Adams Amoysky has also become an historian of note

writing across the field, especially of European history.

Today we're going to be talking about his new monumental biography of Napoleon, simply entitled

Napoleon A Life. Zemoisie was educated at the downside school and later he received his degrees from Queens College at Oxford University.

He received the Master of Arts in Honors in 1974.

Thereafter he set about the task of being a writing historian and that is exactly what he has done,

writing well over a dozen influential books about European history and the

figures behind that history.

But he's also looked at the big ideas and the big themes.

He has sought to integrate, to understand, to make connections

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