Nelson's War

Padfield, Peter

ISBN 10: 1840222255 / ISBN 13: 9781840222258

Published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd, Ware, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, 2000

About this Item

8vo. b/w illustrations. cover shows signs of wear w creases on the spine and cover corners.

Seller Inventory # 90000903

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nelson's War
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, Ware, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840222255
• ISBN 13: 9781840222258
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First.
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non Fiction

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Synopsis

Between 1793 and 1805, Britain fought a series of naval battles against the new French Republic. In this text, Padfield throws controversial light on the battle tactics of the famous action at Camperdown, the Nile Copenhagen and Trafalgar to show just how unconventional they were.

About the Author

Peter Padfield is a leading naval historian and biographer. He trained for the sea as a cadet in H.M.S.Worcester, subsequently serving in the P & O Line. In 1957 he sailed under Cdr. Alan Villiers in the replica pilgrim bark, Mayflower II, from Plymouth, England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where Mayflower is now preserved. Working his passage to the south Pacific he sailed among the Solomon Islands before leaving the sea and settling with his wife in Suffolk, England. His first major book, The Titanic and the Californian defended the captain of the Californian from the charge of not going to Titanic’s rescue. He subsequently turned to naval subjects, particularly great gunnery, strategy and tactics. His biography of the U-boat admiral, Karl Dönitz, led him to a portrayal of submarine warfare in War Beneath the Sea, and to biographies of other leading Nazis, Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Hess, subsequently translated into many European languages. Latterly he has returned to naval history, attempting to bring it out of the specialist closet and present it as a major determinant of the modern world in a trilogy whose second volume, Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom, won the Mountbatten Maritime Prize, 2003.