Seize the Fire
Great britain, history, naval
Admirals
Command of troops
Military leadership
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Naval History
Heroes
Historical fiction
Biography
History
Fiction
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? …
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