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" Admiral Lord Nelson : "
edited by David Cannadine.
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BL
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558082
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b386855
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David Cannadine
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Admiral Lord Nelson : : context and legacy\ edited by David Cannadine.
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2005.
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(xi, 201 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
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0230508707
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: 9780230508705
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Nelson and the British Navy : seamanship, leadership, originality / N.A.M. Rodger -- Nelson and his 'band of brothers' : friendship, freemasonry, fraternity / martyn Downer -- Nelson and the people : manliness, patriotism and body politics / Kathleen Wilson -- Nelson and women : marketing, representations and the female consumer / Kate Williams -- Nelson apotheosised : the creation of the Nelson legend / Colin White -- Nelson entombed : the military and naval pantheon in St. Paul's Cathedral / Holger Hoock -- Nelson goes global : the Nelson myth in Britain and beyond / John Mackenzie -- Nelson afloat : a hero among the world's navies / John B. Hattendorf.
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Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson was a colourful and complex character whose supremely successful naval career quickly attained legendary proportions. By 1803 he was Britain's paramount hero and already maimed with the loss of an arm and blind in one eye. He returned to war and spent a further two years at sea before cementing his mythical status in death and victory at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Today, twoAdmiral Lord Horatio Nelson was a colourful and complex character whose supremely successful naval career quickly attained legendary proportions. By 1803 he was Britain's paramount hero and already maimed with the loss of an arm and blind in one eye. He returned to war and spent a further two years at sea before cementing his mythical status in death and victory at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Today, twoAdmiral Lord Horatio Nelson was a colourful and complex character whose supremely successful naval career quickly attained legendary proportions. By 1803 he was Britain's paramount hero and already maimed with the loss of an arm and blind in one eye. He returned to war and spent a further two years at sea before cementing his mythical status in death and victory at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Today, two
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Electronic books; Biography; Naval history
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