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Naval books on Admiral
Lord Nelson and Nelson's naval battles including the Battle of Trafalgar,
Battle of the Nile and Copenhagen by leading naval book publishers and
naval authors.
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Nelson
and the Nile, The Naval War against Bonaparte 1798, by Brian
Lavery.
The Battle of the Nile, fought
on 1st August 1798, was Nelsons first great victory and dealt a fatal
blow to Napoleon Bonapartes ambitions in the Middle East. But the
battle itself was only the decisive event in a campaign of many months,
upon the outcome of which depended the domination of the Mediterranean
and the whole strategic situation in Europe. In this book, Brian
Lavery places the Battle of the Nile in its full strategic context,
showing the interplay of military and political factors that sent
Nelsons squadron into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the powerful
French invasion fleet. This was also Nelsons first independent
fleet command, and the author shows the development of his command style
and the forging of the esprit de corps which was later to triumph at
Trafalgar. It also provides a fascinating and detailed insight
into the nature and conditions of naval war in the Age of Sail, from the
strain felt by fleet commanders, isolated from higher authority and
starved of information of the enemy, to the daily lives of the sailors
and the tactics used in battle.
Hardback book with 318 pages.
Order number BK0401. Book price £25.00.
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Nelson's War by
Peter Padfield
Between 1793 and 1805 Britain fought a series of naval battles
against the new French Republic. This period of almost unrelieved blockade
and battle culminating in Trafalgar, which gained for Britain what later
historians were to call 'The Empire of the Seas', can now be viewed as one
of the great turning points in history. Horatio Nelson, slight in
physique, audacious and commanding in character, and truly a legend in his
own lifetime, dominated the period.
Peter Padfield throws new and controversial light on the battle
tactics of the famous actions at Camperdown, the Nile, Copenhagen and
Trafalgar to show just how unconventional they were.
Book serial number W39. Price £7.99. Fully illustrated paperback
with 198 pages.
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Nelson: The
Essential Hero by Ernle Bradford
Horatio Nelson is one of the most inspiring and perplexing
characters in history. He carried inside him a mixture of sheer
professionalism and genius, of vanity and courage, of dedication to
sacrifice despite his human weaknesses. This brilliant biography by Ernle
Bradford, himself a naval man who, under sail, has navigated most of the
seas that Nelson knew, reads like a thriller.
Naval warfare of the period and Nelson's battles in particular are
shown in vivid detail; the author describes the strategies, the tactics,
the ponderous ship-to-ship bombardments, the terrifying injuries caused by
flying splinters as well as Nelson's policy of annihilation of the
opposing fleet, making the point that Nelson regarded the escape of a
single enemy ship as a failure.
This fascinating study will always rank high among the many
biographies of Britain's essential hero.
Book serial number W5. Price £4.99. Fully illustrated paperback
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The Frigates by
James Henderson
Light, swift, daring: frigates were the cruisers of Nelson's navy,
commanded by bold, young, courageous officers, ranging the oceans of the
world alone or in packs, seeking the enemy - and usually finding him.
Although the swashbuckling spirit of these incredible sea adventures has
been captured in the best naval fiction, the story of the frigates of
1793-1815 has never been told as a continuous narrative.
James Henderson's vivid writing has the reader pacing the quarterdeck
with the first lieutenant, or muzzle-loading on the smoky gundeck of a 44
- and his descriptions of frigate and naval technicalities make it easy
for the reader to asses such famous actions as the encounter, by
challenge, between HMS Shannon and (of equal power) USS Chesapeake, which
was captured by boarding after fifteen furious minutes.
Book serial number W20. Price £4.99. Fully illustrated paperback
with 192 pages.
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Horatio Nelson by Tom Pocock
Horatio Nelson: the national hero who secured a century of maritime
supremacy for his country and became the focus of British identity and
aspirations. Generous and brave, sometimes vain and occasionally weak, he
is still the butt of half-admiring jokes: bawdy when his name is coupled
with that of Emma Hamilton; respectful in relation to his great naval
achievements.
Tom Pocock's Horatio Nelson is the first biography of the admiral to
include a significant and hitherto unpublished account of Nelson's plans
for a new career in politics. It is the first full biography to unveil
detailed descriptions of his adventures on an expedition to the Arctic as
a boy, his exploits in the Nicaraguan jungle as a young captain, his love
for an older officer's pretty and sophisticated young wife in the West
Indies and his defence in court of one of his men on a murder charge and
of an old friend charged with treason and plotting the murder of the King.
Including an appendix of existing Nelsonian sites in addition to many photographs
and quotations from letters unpublished until now, this biography also
grants us an intimate glimpse, seen through the eyes of Nelson's young
niece, of life with Nelson and the Hamilton's at Merton Place, the home
they shared.
The most revealing study yet written, this biography juxtaposes
details of Nelson's daily life, friendships and opinions with the great
events which make him one of the best loved and most memorable figures in
British history.
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Book serial number BK38. Price £20.00. Hard back with 364 pages.
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