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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... half - conscious pre- occupations of the people who man its ships ? How do the semi - understood but widely inherited ideas about purpose , violence and victory , which are present in any evolved society , shape the way men behave in ...
... half pay , spoke to the people . His books and pamphlets went through edition after edition on both sides of the Atlantic . ' All nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of Babylon's fornications , ' he told his giddy listeners ...
... half - hidden current in English thought and belief . The apocalyptic tradition required a conjuring , wise , intuitive , violent and triumphant leader . Nelson ful- filled some of those expectations . A high conception of his destiny ...
... half of mine burnt to effect their destruction . I am in a fever . God send I may find them . ' Naval warfare had not known such application since the wild mêlées of almost two centuries before . Nelson's de- clared purpose , in letter ...
... half of them there against their own will , prepared to accept the level of risk which their commanders offered them ? Why , in their different ways , were the French and Spanish so broken , so pusillanimous , so defeatist ? Why did the ...
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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 |