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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... Action by Nicholas Pocock , 1808. National Maritime Museum , London . The Death of Nelson 1806 by Benjamin West . O National Museums Liverpool , The Walker Museum . The Death of Nelson , 21 October 1805 by Arthur William Devis , 1807 ...
... action . Apocalypse is the route to millennium . These movements have always emerged in English history at periods of flux and crisis : during the Peasants ' Revolt , early in the 16th century during the first years of the Reformation ...
... action . This book addresses that underlayer , the subtlest and slipperiest of historical levels : pre - conceptions , and the way they shape present behaviour . It is an attempt to describe the mental landscape of the people who fought ...
... action . Nowhere is this more intense than in Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell , acid - etched by him into his copperplates in the decade before Trafalgar . They are a summary of Nelson's method of battle : Energy is eternal ...
... action , not dwelling on action . His method was exuberance and the tigers of his wrath were undaunted by the horses of instruction . Buried deep in the assumptions of England , was a spirit of daring and ferocity . Within the ferocity ...
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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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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar Adam Nicolson Podgląd niedostępny - 2006 |