Horatio Nelson

<p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Runner-up for the Whitbread Biography Award of 1987.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This is the story of the man who saved Britain from invasion and gave it maritime supremacy.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Juxtaposing details of his daily life loves friendships and opinions with the great events which make him one of the most memorable figures in British history </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Horatio Nelson</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> gives us the admiral in all of his flawed and brilliant humanity.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Written with obvious authority it takes us through his life from birth to death not only with a wealth of new research but also with a richness of quotation from contemporary letters and papers which provide dramatic details.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Horatio Nelson</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> should have as much appeal to the general reader as to those with a knowledge of the naval history of the times.</span></p>