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

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

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

by Nicolson, Adam

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0060753617
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9780060753610
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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 2005. Fine in Near Fine jacket. First U.S. edition, navy cloth, pictorial jacket has slight rubbing and a small tear. Otherwise looks new.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine Dustjacket. 6 x 9".

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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? 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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Title
Seize The Fire: Heroism, Duty, And The Battle Of Trafalgar
Author
Nicolson, Adam
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine Dustjacket
Edition
First American Edition
ISBN 10
0060753617
ISBN 13
9780060753610
Publisher
HarperCollins
Place of Publication
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published
2005
Keywords
England, Sea Adventure, World History
Bookseller catalogs
British History;

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