Nelson : The Immortal Memory

DAVID HOWARTH, STEPHEN HOWARTH

ISBN 10: 155821979X / ISBN 13: 9781558219793

Editore: Globe Pequot Pr November 1999, 1999

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• Titolo: Nelson : The Immortal Memory
• Editore: Globe Pequot Pr November 1999
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 155821979X
• ISBN 13: 9781558219793
• Rilegatura: Trade Paperback
• Condizione: Used - Good
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British naval historian David and his author and sailor son Stephen characterize Vice Admiral Horatio Viscount Nelson (1758- 1805) as a fierce and skillful fighter but a gently and kindly man in their biography of the hero of Trafalgar and other naval battles. They do not provide a bibliography. The 1988 cloth edition was published by J. M. Dent and Sons. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Here, from two of the United Kingdom's finest naval historians, is an immensely human portrait of Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant and most honored naval leader Britain has ever known. A great seaman and tactician who possessed an extraordinary ability to inspire respect and devotion, Nelson was a myriad of contradictions - humble yet ambitious, kind but at times petulant, exceptionally charming but often vain and self-pitying, unswerving in his sense of professional duty yet involved in a scandalous love affair. The Howarths have captured not only the man but his time, evoking a remarkable sense of what it was like to sail the seas in Nelson's day, in peace and in war. The great battles of St. Vincent, the Nile, and Copenhagen spring to life, as do the achievements of the British blockading fleet off the French coast in the months and years before the victory at Trafalgar - a victory so decisive and devastating that it put an end to war at sea for a century.This penetrating biography brings us closer than ever before to an understanding of one of England's most revered heroes, who even during his lifetime secured an enduring place in the hearts of an entire nation. (53/4 X 9, 408 pages, b&w photos)