The Nelson Touch The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson
Admiral Horatio Nelson captures our imaginations like few other military figures. A mixture of tactical originality, raw courage, cruelty, and romantic passion, Nelson in action was daring and direct, a paramount naval genius and a natural born predator. Now, in The Nelson Touch, novelist Terry Coleman provides a superb portrait of Britain's most revered naval figure.
Here is a vivid account of Nelson's life, from his childhood and early career at sea--where a high-placed uncle helped speed his advancement to post captain--to gripping accounts of his greatest sea battles. Readers will witness the Battle of the Nile, where Nelson crushed a French squadron of thirteen ships of the line, and the Battle of Trafalgar, where he died at the moment of his greatest triumph. What emerges is a man of strength of mind amounting to genius, frequently generous, always fascinated with women, often uneasy with his superior officers, and absolutely fearless. Nelson was a ruthless commander, whose instinct was not just to defeat the enemy but to annihilate him.
Название: The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson
Автор: Terry Coleman (Author)
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год издания: 2004
ISBN: 0195173228
Страниц: 446 pages
Язык: english
Формат: pdf в rar 23.2 mb
Размер: 40.7 Мб
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