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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... kind of graceful prose as Sea Room . . . . In producing a narrative full of suspense and vivid , raw descriptions of the butchery , Nicolson masterfully avoids the kind of dry intellectualism into which this type of book can so easily ...
... . HMS Victory towed into Gibraltar by Clarkson Stanfield , C1850s . National Maritime Museum , London . Lord Nelson's funeral , 1806. Courtesy The National Archives . ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Any book of this kind relies entirely on the ix.
... kind relies entirely on the work of scholars over many decades and I happily acknow- ledge my debt to all those who have written about the 1805 Royal Navy in the past . In particular , the outstanding volumes of naval records produced ...
... kind Nelson invited and created , inevitably engages men at their innermost levels . By 1805 , the sequence of violent and revolutionary events in Europe over the previous fifteen years had estab- lished in England - or , to be strict ...
... kind of piety towards the crown , its institutions and the Roman church . The Spanish navy was officered by those aristocrats and manned by those peasants - a plebeian / patrician polarity on which the working of modern , high ...
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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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar Adam Nicolson Podgląd niedostępny - 2006 |