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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... look and sound of the ships ; the lives and loves of their commanders ; and the horrendous , pulverizing reality of naval war ; Nicolson can equal anything to be found in the novels of Patrick O'Brian . His book brims with statistics ...
... democratisation of British political institutions . Never were they more powerful than in the years before Trafalgar . The twinning of apocalypse and millennium , of violence leading to peace , is everywhere you look . For xiv.
... look . For English radicals , the French Revolution was itself a sign that the time had come when blood would be shed and peace would descend on all men . The Pitt government , bearing down heavily on any hint of revolutionary thought ...
... looks after her as a Roman 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 ...
... look - outs high on the mainmasts of the British fleet spied the enemy , about twelve miles away downwind . They had been tracking them for a day and a night , the body of their force kept carefully over the horizon , not only to ...
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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 |