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Knight, Roger

 
9780141007618: The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson
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ISBN 10 : 0141007613 ISBN 13 : 9780141007618
Editeur : Penguin, 2006

Synopsis

The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his leadership strengths and his coolness and certainty in battle, and also explores his strategic grasp, the condition of his ships, the skill of his seamen and his relationships with the officers around him - including those who could hardly be called friendly.

This biography takes a cool look at Nelson's status as a hero and demolishes many of the myths that were so carefully established by the early authors, and repeated by their modern successors. Nelson was a shrewd political operator who charmed and impressed political leaders and whose advancement was helped by the relatively weak generation of admirals above him. He was a difficult subordinate, only happy when completely in command, and capable of great ruthlessness. He was flawed, but brilliant - and not to be crossed.

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À propos de l'auteur

Roger Knight was Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum until 2000, and now teaches at the Greenwich Maritime Institute at the University of Greenwich. His previous books for Allen Lane/Penguin are The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson, which won the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military History, the Mountbatten Award and the Anderson Medal of the Society for Nautical Research, and Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815.

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Éditeur
Penguin
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0141007613
ISBN 13 
9780141007618
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
784
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9780465037643: The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  046503764X ISBN 13 :  9780465037643
Editeur : Basic Books, 2005
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