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Men of Honour - Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero (Paperback)
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Men of Honour - Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero (Paperback)
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Loot Price R282
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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 has a three-part framework: the long, slow six hour
morning before the battle; the afternoon itself of terror, death
and destruction; and the shocked, exultant and sobered aftermath,
which finds its climax at Nelson's funeral in a snowy London the
following January. Adam Nicolson examines the concept of heroes and
heroism, both then and now, using Nelson as one of the greatest
examples. A man of complexity and contradiction, he was a supreme
administrator of ships and men; overflowing with humanity, charm
and love but also capable of astonishing ruthlessness and ferocity.
Nelson's own courage, vanity, ruthlessness and sweetness made him
one of the great identifiable heroes of English history. In Men of
Honour, Adam Nicolson also traces the stories of many unknown
people of the day. He tackles the move from the age of reason to
the age of romanticism, and examines a battle that was not only a
uniquely well-documented crisis in human affairs but also a lens on
its own time. Adam Nicolson does not approach Trafalgar as a
military historian. His book gives a wonderfully immediate
recreation of both the battle itself and its aftermath in a rich,
concrete and intellectually engaging style.
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