TRAFALGAR The Men The Battle The Storm

CLAYTON Tim, CRAIG Phil

ISBN 10: 0340830263 / ISBN 13: 9780340830260

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. 9780340830260, 2004

About this Item

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (page edges toned - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xix + 444, illus with coloured plates and drawings in text (no inscriptions).

Seller Inventory # 190405

Bibliographic Details

• Title: TRAFALGAR The Men The Battle The Storm
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. 9780340830260
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340830263
• ISBN 13: 9780340830260
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Naval History

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Synopsis

Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte dominated Europe and threatened Britain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy and the already legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson.

On 21 October 1805 a massive naval battle off Cape Trafalgar on the coast of Spain decided mastery of the seas. Then, over the following days and nights, the battleships and their exhausted crews endured a gale of awesome fury. As Captain Charles Tyler wrote to his wife Margaret, 'the wind blew a perfect storm'. TRAFALGAR takes readers from the claustrophobic turmoil of a gun-deck in battle, to the desperation of men pumping water from sinking hulks adrift in hurricane force winds. Having fought in the most confused and bloody naval conflict that any had known, English, American, Irish, Spanish and French seamen then had to endure a terrifying combination of weather and circumstances - the stuff of every mariner's nightmare.

Intriguing characters abound: Geannette, wife of a Flemish 'main topman'; Louis Infernet, propelled to success by the French Revolution; Dionisio Galiano , sailor, scientist and explorer of the New World, and many more. The demands of life at sea - and what this extraordinary mix of people had suffered and achieved in the turbulent years that led up to TRAFALGAR - make compelling reading.

About the Author

Tim Clayton, a former research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, is a specialist in eighteenth-century history and the author of numerous articles and books, including THE ENGLISH PRINT: 1688-1802. Phil Craig is an award-wnning producer of historical television documentaries. The pair met at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and have collaborated on two acclaimed books about Britian in the Second World War, the bestselling FINEST HOUR, and END OF THE BEGINNING.