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Nelson: A Dream of Glory
John Sugden
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Description for Nelson: A Dream of Glory
Paperback. Offers an account of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. This book gives us the private as well as the public man, it combines scholarship with a brilliant and compelling style. Num Pages: 960 pages, 16pp b/w, 7 maps. BIC Classification: BGH; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1170.
"Nelson: A Dream of Glory" is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. Giving us the private as well as the public man, it combines ground-breaking scholarship with a brilliantly vivid and compelling style.
"Nelson: A Dream of Glory" is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. Giving us the private as well as the public man, it combines ground-breaking scholarship with a brilliantly vivid and compelling style.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
960
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
976
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845951917
SKU
V9781845951917
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
About John Sugden
Dr John Sudgen has pursued a busy trans-Atlantic career as a lecturer, senior research fellow and writer. He is the author of a series of acclaimed articles and books, including Sir Francis Drake, Tecumseh: A Life, which won the Distinguished Book Award of the American Society for Military History, and Blue Jacket, which won the Ohioana Award. This first volume of his definitive biography, Nelson: A Dream of Glory, was published to great critical acclaim in 2004 and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize.
Reviews for Nelson: A Dream of Glory
A masterpiece... The flagship of the fleet, it leaves all others trailing in its wake
Neil Hanson
Sunday Times
A magnificently-researched and thoughtful work which locates Nelson in a global context
Linda Colley This work is massively authoritative
Max Hastings
Sunday Telegraph
One can say with confidence that this momumental tome is the finest yet written on England's great naval hero. Sugden's brilliant book is chock-full of fascinating details. And if the second volume turns out as well as this, his life of Nelson will be one of the historical masterpieces of our time
Frank McLynn
Daily Express
A massive, first-rate battleship of a book
Colin White
Observer
Nelson's early life has been neglected by biographers, but Sugden has patiently reconstructed the early years. Sugden's account of Nelson's battles is richly absorbing, and his fluent, buoyant prose scuds along, carrying the reader with it. This must surely become a standard life
Jane Ridley
Spectator
This is an enthralling book. Sugden's research took in no fewer than thirty-two archives in four countries. Yet he never lets his mastery of the sources slow down the narrative. So good is Sugden's writing, so fascinating his material, so judicious his comments, that you long for the concluding volume
Daily Telegraph
Sugden's passion for his subject and astonishing research reveal the blossoming hero in a new light
Lucy Moore
Daily Mail
The most detailed study of Nelson ever published
F. J. M. Scott
History Today
Detailed naval history, a wealth of previously ignored primary sources and an intriguing new take on a complex hero come together in John Sugden's must-read
Rachel Holmes, BBC History Magazine
Neil Hanson
Sunday Times
A magnificently-researched and thoughtful work which locates Nelson in a global context
Linda Colley This work is massively authoritative
Max Hastings
Sunday Telegraph
One can say with confidence that this momumental tome is the finest yet written on England's great naval hero. Sugden's brilliant book is chock-full of fascinating details. And if the second volume turns out as well as this, his life of Nelson will be one of the historical masterpieces of our time
Frank McLynn
Daily Express
A massive, first-rate battleship of a book
Colin White
Observer
Nelson's early life has been neglected by biographers, but Sugden has patiently reconstructed the early years. Sugden's account of Nelson's battles is richly absorbing, and his fluent, buoyant prose scuds along, carrying the reader with it. This must surely become a standard life
Jane Ridley
Spectator
This is an enthralling book. Sugden's research took in no fewer than thirty-two archives in four countries. Yet he never lets his mastery of the sources slow down the narrative. So good is Sugden's writing, so fascinating his material, so judicious his comments, that you long for the concluding volume
Daily Telegraph
Sugden's passion for his subject and astonishing research reveal the blossoming hero in a new light
Lucy Moore
Daily Mail
The most detailed study of Nelson ever published
F. J. M. Scott
History Today
Detailed naval history, a wealth of previously ignored primary sources and an intriguing new take on a complex hero come together in John Sugden's must-read
Rachel Holmes, BBC History Magazine