Seize The Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar

by Adam Nicolson

2020-11-22 23:16:50

“Strikingly original. . . . Mr. 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 in... Read more

“Strikingly original. . . . Mr. 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 in October 1805, 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.

Nicolson not only vividly describes describes the brutal realities of battle but enters the hearts and minds of the men who were there. 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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Book Details

File size8 X 5.31 X 0.86 in
Print pages384
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication date August 29, 2006
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780060753627
Adam Nicolson is the author of many books on history, travel and the environment. He is the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives on a farm in Sussex. This is...

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