Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Nicolson, Adam
From Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
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From Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since March 20, 2019
About this Item
Fine condition navy blue boards/black spine with silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments; Preface; Bibliography and Index. Also includes an color illustrated oversized double foldout front and rear inner jacket flap sections, illustrated front and rear endpapers, and an section of color illustrations. "In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero? And daring? Why did the cult of the hero flower in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a way it hadn't for two hundred years? Was the figure of Nelson - intemperate, charming, theatrical, anxious, impetuous, considerate, indifferent to death and danger, inspirational to those around him, and, above all, fixed on attack and victory - an aberration in Enlightenment England? This was a battle fought for the control of a global commercial empire. It was won by the emerging British world power, which was widely condemned on the continent of Europe as "the arrogant usurper of the freedom of the seas." "Seize the Fire not only vividly describes the brutal realities of battle but enters the hearts and minds of the men who were there; it is a portrait of a moment, a close and passionately engaged depiction of a frame of mind at a turning point in world history.". Seller Inventory # 000581
Bibliographic Details
Title: Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the ...
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, New York
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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