Dimensions
159 x 240 x 38mm
The Long Haul To Trafalgar.
Trafalgar was a victory that would change the course of the Napoleonic Wars and would lead to the British Navy ruling the waves for more than a century.
In Christopher Lee's new book he looks not only at this final and decisive battle but also at the three battles that led up to it: Cape St Vincent (1797), the Battle of the Nile (1798) and Copenhagen (1801). Through these battles he paints a picture of the personalities and the intrigues that were operating at this time, and particularly of the creation of a national hero in Horatio Nelson and his intense rivalry with Napoleon, who is reputed to have kept a bust of Nelson on his desk.
