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The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson
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- ISBN
- 9780195147414
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195147413
ISBN-13
9780195147414
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2266184
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nelson Touch : the Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson
Number of Pages
472 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Military / Naval, General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
29.7 Oz
Item Length
6.2 in
Item Width
9.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-070635
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Reviews
"Trenchant." --Richard Morrison, The Times "Vivid and challenging.... Terry Coleman clearly intends to be provocative--and he succeeds.... This book deserves to be taken seriously."--The Economist "Compelling and impeccably researched.... The character that emerges is both more flawed and more human than hitherto supposed." --Saul David, The Daily Telegraph "Written in the very best tradition of revisionist history: it is well researched, closely argued, at odds with received wisdom, and long overdue.... Coleman's smoothly written prose is full of fascinating asides and insights." --Andrew Roberts, Sunday Telegraph, "Trenchant." --Richard Morrison,The Times "Vivid and challenging.... Terry Coleman clearly intends to be provocative--and he succeeds.... This book deserves to be taken seriously."--The Economist "Compelling and impeccably researched.... The character that emerges is both more flawed and more human than hitherto supposed." --Saul David,The Daily Telegraph "Written in the very best tradition of revisionist history: it is well researched, closely argued, at odds with received wisdom, and long overdue.... Coleman's smoothly written prose is full of fascinating asides and insights." --Andrew Roberts,Sunday Telegraph, "Trenchant." --Richard Morrison, The Times "Vivid and challenging.... Terry Coleman clearly intends to be provocative--and he succeeds.... This book deserves to be taken seriously."--The Economist "Compelling and impeccably researched.... The character that emerges is both more flawed and more human than hitherto supposed." --Saul David, The Daily Telegraph"Written in the very best tradition of revisionist history: it is well researched, closely argued, at odds with received wisdom, and long overdue.... Coleman's smoothly written prose is full of fascinating asides and insights." --Andrew Roberts, Sunday Telegraph, "Trenchant." --Richard Morrison, The Times "Vivid and challenging.... Terry Coleman clearly intends to be provocative--and he succeeds.... This book deserves to be taken seriously."-- The Economist "Compelling and impeccably researched.... The character that emerges is both more flawed and more human than hitherto supposed." --Saul David, The Daily Telegraph "Written in the very best tradition of revisionist history: it is well researched, closely argued, at odds with received wisdom, and long overdue.... Coleman's smoothly written prose is full of fascinating asides and insights." --Andrew Roberts, Sunday Telegraph
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
940.2/7/092 B
Synopsis
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: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson , 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. Coleman also lays bare Nelson's faults: he was a ruthless commander, whose instinct was not just to defeat the enemy but to annihilate him. Indeed, some of Nelson's more controversial actions might be viewed as war crimes today. And he was a skillful self-promoter, who did all he could to advance his own fame. But in the end, that fame was well earned and he was deservedly idolized by the British people. Sure to appeal to readers of Patrick O'Brian and other seafaring fiction, as well as all military history and naval history buffs, this is a superbly written biography that gives readers the texture and feel of this magnificent life., 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. Sure to appeal to readers of Patrick O'Brian and other seafaring fiction, as well as all military history and naval history buffs, this is a superbly written biography that gives readers the texture and feel of this magnificent life., 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: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson, 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. Coleman also lays bare Nelson's faults: he was a ruthless commander, whose instinct was not just to defeat the enemy but to annihilate him. Indeed, some of Nelson's more controversial actions might be viewed as war crimes today. And he was a skillful self-promoter, who did all he could to advance his own fame. But in the end, that fame was well earned and he was deservedly idolized by the British people. Sure to appeal to readers of Patrick O'Brian and other seafaring fiction, as well as all military history and naval history buffs, this is a superbly written biography that gives readers the texture and feel of this magnificent life.
LC Classification Number
DA87.1.N4C63 2002
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