Lord Nelson: The Immortal Memory

Howarth, David

ISBN 10: 0670817295 / ISBN 13: 9780670817290

Published by Viking Adult, 1989

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Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers. Seller Inventory # 00084889289

Bibliographic Details

Title: Lord Nelson: The Immortal Memory

Publisher: Viking Adult

Publication Date: 1989

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

Chronicles the life and career of Enland's most famus admiral, detailing his early experiences in the British Navy, commands, marriage to Fanny Nisbet, affair with Lady Hamilton, and role in the battle of Trafalgar

From Publishers Weekly:

Nelson was the almost perfect hero, not only a fearless fighter, brilliant tactician and great admiral, but so loved that when he died at Trafalgar, while devastating the combined French and Spanish fleets, his fleet "forgot its vic tory in an astonishing spontaneous outburst of grief." His failings were a boyish vanity and an unfaithfulness to his wife. Though Nelson is the subject of many previous biographies, David Howarth ( The Voyage of the Armada, 1066 ) and Stephen Howarth ( The Knights Templar ) write of him here with a verve and intimacy of detail that make their book as appealing as the admiral himself. They trace his life from his birth in a Norfolk parsonage to his early commands in the West Indies, to his remarkable subsequent career, providing intriguing analyses of his greatest victoriesat the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgarand following the entire course of his adulterous passion for Lady Hamilton who, second to duty, was his greatest love. Photos.
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