Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: GE.H FS.E Nelson, Horatio / College 2d - Geschichte	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

Horatio Nelson was the most brilliant and most honoured naval leader Britain has ever nown, a great seaman and a great tactician who possessed an extraordinary ability to inspire respect and devotion.

David Howarth and Stephen Howarth, two of the United Kingdom's finest naval historians, create here an immensely human portrait of the man - at once humble yet ambitious, kind but at times irritable, exceptionally loveable and yet often vain and self-pitying, unswerving in his sense of professional duty but unfaithful to his wife in one tremendous love affair. And they also evoke a remarkable sense of what it was to sail the seas in Nelson's day, in peace and in war. The great battles at St Vincent, the Nile and Copenhagen spring vividly to life, as do the achievements of the British blockading fleet off the French coast in the months and years before the victory of Trafalgar - a victory so decisive and so devastating that it put an end to war at sea for a century.

This penetrating but sympathetic biography brings us closer than ever before to an understanding of one our most revered heroes, who even during his lifetime secured an enduring place in the hearts of an entire nation. (Klappentext)