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Nelson: Love and Fame
By: Edgar Vincent
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ISBN: 9780300102604 Publisher: Yale University Press
Year of publishing: 2004 Format: Paperback
No of Pages: 640
Legendary for exploits in war and love, the perennially fascinating Horatio Nelson comes into clear view in this book. Nelson?s naval glory, public fame, charismatic leadership, scandalous romance, and untimely...Read more
Legendary for exploits in war and love, the perennially fascinating Horatio Nelson comes into clear view in this book. Nelson?s naval glory, public fame, charismatic leadership, scandalous romance, and untimely death as he led the British to victory at the Battle of Trafalgar have ensured his enduring position as England?s favorite hero. This biography of Nelson (1758?1805) presents a comprehensive account of his career and climb to fame interwoven with the fascinating details of his personal and emotional life. A man of contradictions, Nelson emerges in this biography as a ruthless and aggressive leader; an ambitious attention-seeker capable of childish behavior; but a figure admired for his courage, kindness, and leadership skills. Edgar Vincent offers a number of new interpretations of aspects of Nelson?s life, illuminates the motives and attitudes of key figures who surrounded him, and provides an account of his early infatuations, his courtship of his wife Fanny, and his passion for his celebrated mistress Lady Hamilton. Captured on these pages in all his vigor and complexity, Nelson is as charismatic a figure today as he was two hundred years ago.
Since his retirement as a senior manager from ICI, Edgar Vincent has been researching and writing about Horatio Nelson. He first became interested in Nelson during his own service in the British Royal Navy four decades ago.
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Since his retirement as a senior manager from ICI, Edgar Vincent has been researching and writing about Horatio Nelson. He first became interested in Nelson during his own service in the British Royal Navy four decades ago.
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About the author: Edgar Vincent
Review:Easily the best biography of Nelson I've ever read, a superb, fully rigged 74-gun ship of a book."-Andrew Roberts "Nelson: Love and Fame has the potential to prove a great success, to be very...Read more
Easily the best biography of Nelson I've ever read, a superb, fully rigged 74-gun ship of a book."-Andrew Roberts "Nelson: Love and Fame has the potential to prove a great success, to be very popular indeed, and to establish itself as the fullest and best life of Nelson for a generation."-Rory Muir, author of Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon
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