[PDF] Trafalgar The Nelson Touch eBook

Author : David Armine Howarth
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805
ISBN :

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The battle of Trafalgar decided a nation's fate, and this fascinating account tells the story of that crucial confrontation as it has never been told before. Many people know the facts about Nelson's death, but far less of the battle in which he died: a single afternoon's fighting that forever ended Napoleon's hope of invading England.

Author : Terry Coleman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2004-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199924058

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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.

Author : Edgar Vincent
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300102604

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Legendary for his exploits in war and love, Admiral Horatio Nelson comes into clear view in this captivating new biography. ?This is a wonderful book, the best modern biography of Britain's greatest admiral.”?John Keegan, Daily Telegraph ?A great biography and a poignant love story.”?Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic Monthly ?A masterly biography, cool and sharp in long shots, intimately persuasive in close focus, at all times difficult to put down and as timely as it is suggestive in its implications.”?Hilary Spurling, New York Times Book Review ?A splendid biography, not only because it is well written and well researched, but also because it neither seeks to demean the hero nor excuse the man. Heroism becomes the more remarkable when it is shown by people who in other ways are very like ourselves.”?L. G. Mitchell, Times Literary Supplement ?Vincent has written a masterful biography of a military man that examines the nuts and bolts of leadership in an entertaining and compelling way. . . . If you only read one biography of Nelson among the hundreds available, it should be this one.”?Paul Carbray, The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec)

Author : Stephanie Jones
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1857884922

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Lord Nelson's widely admired approach to leadership and management is distilled into a series of practical insights for today's managers.