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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... hero flow- ered , ' and in this he succeeds exceptionally well . " -Roy Adkins , The Independent on Sunday ( London ) " There is no shortage of books about Nelson , but Nicolson's is not just another run - through of a rousing but ...
... hero , and confiding in Providence I will brave every danger . ' Then , as Clarke and McArthur , his first biographers , who heard this story from a friend of his , Richard Bulkeley , in Ludlow , went on : ' The spirit of Nelson revived ...
... hero like him who was a saviour , a man not from the established ruling class but outside it , sharing its patrician grace , but a less distant and more demotic figure than that . The figure of ' Nelson ' , the fleet - burning conjuror ...
... hero flowered here . Answers are inevitably complex , rooted in part in the twin classical inheritance of the ruthless , Greek , Achillean hero , who burns and destroys without thought to his own welfare ; and the Roman , Virgilian hero ...
... hero should . The Roman is part of a system , social and consider- ate . He sees himself as a servant . Like Aeneas , he carries his father , his nation on his shoulders . If Achilles is crisis and destruction , Aeneas is support and ...
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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 |