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'Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero' by Adam Nicolson. |
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| Description | The Battle of Trafalgar can claim to be one of the most known of the great human events. In Men of Honour, Adam Nicolson takes one of the greatest identifiable heroes in British history, Horatio Nelson, and examines the broader themes of heroism, violence and virtue. Trafalgar gripped the nineteenth century imagination like no other battle: it was a moment of both transcendent fulfilment and unmatched despair. It was a drama of such violence and sacrifice that the concept of total war may be argued to start from there. It finished the global ambitions of a European tyrant but culminated in the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson, the greatest hero of the era. This book fuses the immediate intensity of the battle with the deeper currents that were running at the time. It has a three-part framework: the long, slow six hour morning before the battle; the afternoon itself of terror, death and destruction; and the shocked, exultant and sobered aftermath ... | | Release Date | 2005 | | Author | Adam Nicolson | | Format | Dimensions 14.1x23.0x3.3 cm
55 pages
book | | Publisher | HarperCollins UK | | Subject(s) | Biography & Autobiography / Military
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
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History / General
History / Europe / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)
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