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Spectator, UK Splendidly provocative... full of arresting details and sharp asides. Adam Zamoyski writes like a dancer at a court ball: gracious, patrician, masterful, sure-footed. The Times, UK Vivid, terrifying and often quite funny... Zamoyski admits that his story 'holds enormous relevance to the present.' But, being a careful and wise historian, he leaves it to the reader to draw the conclusions that seem logical... Superbly drawn. Kirkus [Zamoyski's] point is important, and his book comprehensively examines the role of the powerful over the weak and the effects of governmental overreactions. Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History With characteristic flair and elegance, Adam Zamoyski dissects the paranoia, suspicion, and conspiracy theories which followed in the wake of the French Revolution. He sketches out the birth of the modern police state in this era, as well as the origins of European totalitarianism and the beginnings of what we would later come to call class struggle. Phantom Terror is a timely and original history book, a brilliant guide to the past which will inspire reflections about the present as well. Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War This diligently researched, beautifully written, and passionately argued work of scholarship completely convinces. Adam Zamoyski conclusively proves his case against the reactionary European Legitimist monarchy-dictatorships, and he does so with appropriately aristocratic panache. In so doing he leads an entire herd of sacred cows to the abattoir of history. This is revisionist history at its absolute best. Orlando Figes, author of Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 A memorably impressive and important book. Phantom Terror is scholarly, well-written and enjoyable, with fascinating insights on almost every page of this tour d'horizon of reactionary Europe in the revolutionary age.

Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War This diligently researched, beautifully written, and passionately argued work of scholarship completely convinces. Adam Zamoyski conclusively proves his case against the reactionary European Legitimist monarchy-dictatorships, and he does so with appropriately aristocratic panache. In so doing he leads an entire herd of sacred cows to the abattoir of history. This is revisionist history at its absolute best.

Economist Scintillating and original. Spectator, UK Splendidly provocative... full of arresting details and sharp asides. Adam Zamoyski writes like a dancer at a court ball: gracious, patrician, masterful, sure-footed. The Times, UK Vivid, terrifying and often quite funny... Zamoyski admits that his story 'holds enormous relevance to the present.' But, being a careful and wise historian, he leaves it to the reader to draw the conclusions that seem logical... Superbly drawn. Kirkus [Zamoyski's] point is important, and his book comprehensively examines the role of the powerful over the weak and the effects of governmental overreactions. Publishers Weekly A meticulous, thorough account... Zamoyski takes an infamous 18th-century class struggle and painstakingly shows how the resulting suppression manifested itself through sophisticated spy networks and Germany's heightened nationalism, as well as a chasm between the economic and social classes that persists today. Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History With characteristic flair and elegance, Adam Zamoyski dissects the paranoia, suspicion, and conspiracy theories which followed in the wake of the French Revolution. He sketches out the birth of the modern police state in this era, as well as the origins of European totalitarianism and the beginnings of what we would later come to call class struggle. Phantom Terror is a timely and original history book, a brilliant guide to the past which will inspire reflections about the present as well. Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War This diligently researched, beautifully written, and passionately argued work of scholarship completely convinces. Adam Zamoyski conclusively proves his case against the reactionary European Legitimist monarchy-dictatorships, and he does so with appropriately aristocratic panache. In so doing he leads an entire herd of sacred cows to the abattoir of history. This is revisionist history at its absolute best. Orlando Figes, author of Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 A memorably impressive and important book. Phantom Terror is scholarly, well-written and enjoyable, with fascinating insights on almost every page of this tour d'horizon of reactionary Europe in the revolutionary age.

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Adam Zamoyski is an award-winning author of numerous books about Poland, Napoleon, and 19th century Europe. A contributor to the Times, the Daily Telegraph, and the Guardian, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal Society of Literature, Zamoyski lives in London.

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