Battle of Trafalgar (Pen & Sword Military Classics) - Softcover

Bennett, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844151077 ISBN 13: 9781844151073

Publisher: Pen and Sword Military Classics, 2004

Synopsis

The battle of Trafalgar has now passed into national mythology. The expertise, courage, determination and confidence which gave Britain a victory of spectacular finality in October 1805 also provided her with one of her great legendary figures - a naval hero in life but much more like a national, if very secular, saint in death. However, like the noise and smoke of battle, legends have a habit of obscuring facts and, having embodied themselves in popular imagination, are transcribed to the history books.

Captain Bennett was, for many years, a serving officer in the Royal Navy as well as being one of the most highly regarded naval historians of his time. He sets the battle in the context of the world-wide struggle against Napoleon, describes the ships, their crews and the tactics of the action. In his scholarly but immensely readable account of the battle he discusses the preparatory manoeuvres and the mechanics of naval warfare in the age of sail. He illustrates the text with many diagrams.

About this title

About the Author

Captain Geoffrey Bennett (1908-1983) was a career naval officer who, while serving, published a number of naval adventure yarns and radio plays under the pen-name 'Sea Lion'. He became familiar with the Baltic events of 1919 while naval attaché in Moscow, shortly after the death of Stalin in 1953. On retirement he published several naval histories, including one on Nelson, and studies of both World Wars under his own name, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Also available: Coronel and the Falklands, The Battle of Jutland, Naval Battles of the First World War, Nelson the Commander, The Battle of the River Plate and The Battle of Trafalgar and Naval Battles of World War Two

Review

"Overall, Robson has crafted an exceptional book on the battle, with about everything you'd want from a Trafalgar book." (Paper Wars)

About this edition

• Publisher: Pen and Sword Military Classics
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1844151077
• ISBN 13: 9781844151073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256