Il punto di partenza della magnifica nuova biografia di Roger Knight è spiegare come Nelson abbia ottenuto un successo così straordinario. Knight lo colloca saldamente nel contesto della Royal Navy dell'epoca. Analizza le qualità più evidenti di Nelson, i suoi punti di forza di comando e la sua freddezza e sicurezza in battaglia, ed esplora anche la sua presa strategica, le condizioni delle sue navi, l'abilità dei suoi marinai e i suoi rapporti con gli ufficiali che lo circondavano, compresi quelli che difficilmente potevano essere definiti amichevoli. Questa biografia dà uno sguardo freddo allo status di Nelson come eroe e demolisce molti dei miti che sono stati così attentamente stabiliti dai primi autori e ripetuti dai loro successori moderni. Nelson era un astuto operatore politico che affascinava e impressionava i leader politici e il cui avanzamento è stato aiutato dalla relativamente debole generazione di ammiragli sopra di lui. Era un subordinato difficile, felice solo quando era completamente al comando, e capace di grande spietatezza. Era imperfetto, ma brillante, e non si poteva contraddire.
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Roger Knight was Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum until 2000, and now teaches at the Greenwich Maritime Institute at the University of Greenwich. His previous books for Allen Lane/Penguin are The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson, which won the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military History, the Mountbatten Award and the Anderson Medal of the Society for Nautical Research, and Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815.
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