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Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle de Roy Adkins

Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle

Autor Roy Adkins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mai 2005
A superbly researched, gripping account of the most important naval battle in British history, which thwarted Napoleon at sea and created a national hero in Nelson

21 October 1805: Britain, under Nelson, mastered the sea for six hours, annihilating her French and Spanish opponents. In Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle, Roy Adkins embraces the battle, its prelude and its aftermath, in a narrative that is at once scholarly and breathtakingly exciting.

'At least the equal to Stalingrad in blood, pace and telling detail' Independent on Sunday

'Masterful... a compelling account' Bernard Cornwell, Mail on Sunday

'First-rate... quite fascinating and filled with glimpses of the humanity of the men who fought so coolly yet ferociously' Allan Mallinson, Spectator
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780349116327
ISBN-10: 0349116326
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: Section: 16, b/w
Dimensiuni: 131 x 199 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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First-rate... quite fascinating and filled with glimpses of the humanity of the men who fought so coolly yet ferociously. His account of the battle is a gripping album of snapshots from the quarterdecks and gundecks of the ships themselves. Truly it is a most eclectic, engaging book
Masterful... a compelling account
Blazing... also boasts a welcome twist to the genre with a lacing of black humour... At least the equal to Stalingrad in blood, pace and telling detail
The blazing TRAFALGAR is at least the equal of STALINGRAD in blood, pace and detail, but it also boasts a welcome twist to the genre with a lacing of black humour
Masterful in explaining why Nelson's men were so much more efficient ... Adkins has written a compelling account
Well-written and makes good use of first-hand accounts
[Adkins's] painstaking digging, sifting, arranging and questioning take him everywhere on Nelson's fleet ... His account of the battle is a gripping album of snapshots from the quarterdecks and gun decks of the ships themselves ... A most eclectic but engagi