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Paperback. Pub Date:2006-05-02 Pages: 400 Language: English Publisher: HarperPerennial An unforgettable look at the contradictions of heroism. as embodied by Horatio Nelson and as tested by the battle of Trafalgar Adam Nicolson looks at the variety of qualities. - ruthlessness. bravery. kindness. cruelty - that combined in both Nelson and his troops to carry that fateful day.Trafalgar gripped the nineteenth century imagination like no other battle: it was a moment of both transcendent fulfilment and unmatched despair It was a drama. of such violence and sacrifice that the concept of total war may be argued to start from there. It finished the global ambitions of a European tyrant but culminated in the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson. the greatest hero of the era.This book fuses the immediate. intensity of the battle with the deeper currents that were running at the time It...