Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of TrafalgarHarper Collins, 9 sie 2005 - 341 In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero? And daring? Why did the cult of the hero flower in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a way it hadn't for two hundred years? Was the figure of Nelson—intemperate, charming, theatrical, anxious, impetuous, considerate, indifferent to death and danger, inspirational to those around him, and, above all, fixed on attack and victory—an aberration in Enlightenment England? Or was the greatest of all English military heroes simply the product of his time, "the conjurer of violence" that England, at some level, deeply needed? It is a story rich with modern resonance. This was a battle fought for the control of a global commercial empire. It was won by the emerging British world power, which was widely condemned on the continent of Europe as "the arrogant usurper of the freedom of the seas." Seize the Fire not only vividly describes the brutal realities of battle but enters the hearts and minds of the men who were there; it 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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... First published in Great Britain in 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers. first edition Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request. ISBN 0-06-075361-7 05 06 07 08 09 rrd 10 ...
... 1. Zeal 3 2. Order and Anxiety 49 3. Honour 93 4. Love 130 5. Boldness 157 Part Two: BATTLE 6. Violence 209 7. Humanity 239 8. Nobility 275 bibliography 319 index 327 ILLUSTRATIONS A First Rate Taking in Stores, 1818 by Joseph.
... wanted, straight into the jaws of the British guns. Twenty minutes after the first sighting in the light of dawn, Nelson signalled to the fleet: 'Form order of sailing in two columns.' This was the attack formation in which 3. 1. Zeal.
... First Lord of the Admiralty called Nelson 'a most uncouth creature.' His general appearance, she thought – and this was a woman who loved and admired him – 'was that of an idiot.' He was the most feared naval commander in the world. In ...
... demographic fact. The supply of good, strong, well-fed men, with a high level of ambition and enterprise, was simply absent. 'They have four first-rates in commission at Cadiz,' Nelson went on, 'and very fine ships, but 14.
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Order and Anxiety | 49 |
Honour | 93 |
Love | 130 |
Boldness | 157 |
Violence | 209 |
Humanity | 239 |
Nobility | 275 |
bibliography | 319 |
index | 327 |
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