Richard Davenporthines

How a clumsy drummer started the 1848 revolutions

A review of Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty, 1789 – 1848, by Adam Zamoyski. This masterful history shows how secret policing arrested the development Europe

Students at the Wartburg festival in October 1817, celebrating the tercentenary of the Reformation and the fourth anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig, cause panic in the courts of Europe. [Bridgeman Images]
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  • Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty, 1789–1848

    Adam Zamoyski

    William Collins, pp. 569

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