Nelson – The Immortal Memory

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All agree there is but one Nelson.’ He was the most brilliant and most honoured naval leader Britain has ever known, a great seaman and a great tactician; but more even than this, he possessed such an extraordinary ability to inspire respect and devotion that, when he died at Trafalgar, his fleet forgot its triumph in an astonishing spontaneous outburst of personal grief. David Howarth and Stephen Howarth, two of the country’s leading naval historians, create here an immensely human portrait of the man

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All agree there is but one Nelson.’ He was the most brilliant and most honoured naval leader Britain has ever known, a great seaman and a great tactician; but more even than this, he possessed such an extraordinary ability to inspire respect and devotion that, when he died at Trafalgar, his fleet forgot its triumph in an astonishing spontaneous outburst of personal grief. David Howarth and Stephen Howarth, two of the country’s leading naval historians, create here an immensely human portrait of the man

Author=David Howarth
Pages=390
Published=1988
Book Condtion=Ex public library book.library plate and stamp.generally excellent condition

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