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SEIZE THE FIRE: Heroism, Duty and the Battle of Trafalgar
de Nicolson, Adam
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (crease to flap of dj)./near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060753617
- ISBN 13
- 9780060753610
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New York:: Harper Collins,, (2005). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (crease to flap of dj).. First printing. A book which uses the naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805 "to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic.. . 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'." Includes a section of full color illustrations, bibliography and index. xxiv, 341 pp. Uncommon wraparound dust jacket features oversized double foldouts on both the front and rear flaps to show a panoramic image of the famous battle.
Sinopsis
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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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 86991
- Título
- SEIZE THE FIRE: Heroism, Duty and the Battle of Trafalgar
- Autor
- Nicolson, Adam
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover first edition -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (crease to flap of dj).
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- near fine
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0060753617
- ISBN 13
- 9780060753610
- Editorial
- Harper Collins,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- (2005)
- Palabras clave
- military, admiral horatio nelson
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History: World;
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