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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... and 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.
... never rise in my profession . My mind was staggered with a view of the difficulties I had to surmount and the little interest [ meaning connections within the navy ] I possessed . I could discover no means of reaching the object of my ...
... never have encompassed . Tyger Tyger burning bright , In the forests of the night ; What immortal hand or eye , Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies . Burnt the fire of thine eyes ? On what wings dare he ...
... Never- theless there is a kernel of truth in it and the description raises questions . Why were the English so ambitious , so confident and so aggressive ? Why were these crews , about half of them there against their own will ...
... never more than when in pursuit of gold , was British policy . Nelson himself was described by the deeply conservative and nationalistic Spanish poet Francisco Sánchez Barbaro as ' el tirano del mar ' and ' el héroe más bárbaro y tirano ...
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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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