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By 1809 the Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson's Navy and the French fleet. At stake was Britain's commercial lifeline to India - and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. Storm and Conquest brings together the terrifying ordeal of men, women and children caught at sea in hurricanes, and those who survived to drive the French from the Eastern Seas. All shared a need to prove themselves - to make a career, or a fortune, or a marriage - in places which could be at once magnificent and terrifying.
The drama of Stephen Taylor's masterful narrative is irresistible; his true stories more than a match for the novels of Patrick O'Brian. And he provides a meticulously researched, searing portrait of the British captains whose zeal and ambition was such that they would rather die than capitulate.
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Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1808-10 by Stephen Taylor is a gripping and epic account of the infamous Battle for Mauritius in which the British fleet sailed close to catastrophe in French waters.
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Stephen Taylor grew up in South Africa, and now works for The Times. He is the author of several celebrated books on Africa, most recently The Caliban Shore, which was described by Paul Theroux as 'a wonderful book, hugely satisfying on many levels' and by Jan Morris as 'masterly ... A great adventure story.'
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- EditoreFaber & Faber
- Data di pubblicazione2007
- ISBN 10 0571224652
- ISBN 13 9780571224654
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero edizione1
- Numero di pagine352
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