Seize The Fire Heroism, Duty, And The Battle Of Trafalgar

by Nicolson, Adam

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Bookseller: C & C Fine Books (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 677
Format/binding: Hardcover
Book condition: As New
Jacket condition: as new
Quantity available: 1
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0060753617
ISBN 13: 9780060753610
Publisher: Harpercollins
Place: New York
Date published: 2005
Pages: 341
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 x 1.12 inches
Weight: 1.5 pounds
Subjects: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain;

Book Description

New York: Harpercollins, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. 341 pp. Sm4to. Blue paper boards with black cloth spine. Decorated endpapers with extra large endflaps. Dust Jacket is covered with clear plastic (Brodart) protector. 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? Or was the greatest of all English military heroes simply the product of his time, "the conjurer of violence" that England, at some level, deeply needed? It is a story rich with modern resonance. 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.

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