Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of TrafalgarHarper Collins, 13 paź 2009 - 384 “Strikingly original. . . . Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar.” —The Economist Adam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. A story rich with modern resonance, Seize the Fire reveals the economic impact of the battle as a victorious Great Britain emerged as a global commercial empire. In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth-century world-dominating empire. Seize the Fire is not only a close and revealing portrait of a legendary hero in his final action but also a vivid account of the brutal realities of battle; it asks the questions: Why did the winners win? What was it about the British, their commanders and their men, their beliefs and their ambitions, that took them to such overwhelming victory? His masterful history is a portrait of a moment, a close and passionately engaged depiction of a frame of mind at a turning point in world history. |
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Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar Adam Nicolson. SEIZE THE FIRE HEROISM , DUTY , AND NELSON'S BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR 品 ADAM NICOLSON AUTHOR OF GOD'S SECRETARIES " Highly original .... The battle scenes are tingling , and ...
... Trafalgar over the past two centuries , perhaps a dozen will be worth rereading at the tercente- nary . This is one of them . " -Tom Pocock , The Spectator ( London ) " Written in the same kind of graceful prose as Sea Room . . . . In ...
Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar Adam Nicolson. SEIZE the FIRE Heroism , Duty , and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar ADAM NICOLSON NEW YORK HARPER PERENNIAL LONDON . TORONTO @ SYDNEY HARPER OPERENNIAL First published in Great ...
Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar Adam Nicolson. the anxious , methodical , endlessly attentive , systematic and careful man that Horatio Nelson , like many other naval officers , actually was . Even in the weeks before ...
... Trafalgar , virtually unknown at the time , but full of a sublimity , a beauty in terror , which Blake's publicly acknowledged contempor- aries , most of them still engaged with the courtesies of the 18th century , could never have ...
Spis treści
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Order and Anxiety | 49 |
Honour | 93 |
Love | 130 |
Boldness | 157 |
Violence | 209 |
Humanity | 239 |
Nobility | 275 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 319 |
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