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| Author | : Victor T. Sharman |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 1990-12-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1473816718 |
Horatio Nelson's first captain was William Locker who recognised the exceptional talents of the young midshipman who was to become the most famous sailor in history. Thirty-seven years later Admiral Lord Nelson wrote to Locker 'I have been your scholar; it was you who taught me to board a Frenchman by your conduct It is you who always taught me to lay a Frenchman close and you will beat him. My only merit in my profession is being a good scholar'. Captain William Locker's career as a Sea Captain fighting the King's enemies on the high seas makes gripping reading and high drama.
| Author | : Max Adams |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2015-03-12 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1784081930 |
Admiral Lord Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastle merchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of thirteen. In his nearly fifty years in the Navy he rose to become a fine seaman, a master of gunnery, a battle commander the equal of his friend – and rival in love – Nelson. He was also an accomplished writer and wit, a doting father, inveterate gossip and consummate diplomat and strategist. Collingwood's service took him to Boston, where he lived and fought during the American War of Independence; to Antigua, where he and Nelson both fell in love with Mary Moutray; to Corsica; Sicily; and Menorca, where he began as a young midshipman and ended his career as the effective viceroy of the Mediterranean. ADMIRAL COLLINGWOOD is an intimate portrait of a forgotten British naval hero and a thrilling portrait of the glory years of the age of sail.
| Author | : Peter R. DeMontravel |
| Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780873385947 |
In this reassessment of the career of Nelson A. Miles - which he began as a volunteer officer in the Civil War - the author suggests that comments made by his enemies influenced the way Miles's career has been viewed by historians and tries to readdress this.
| Author | : Max Adams |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2005-08-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
"This surprising treat for lovers of naval history and real-life adventure traces Collingwood's exploits from his harsh coming of age at sea through his storied service in the American Revolution to the long and bitter struggle with Napoleon. Collingwood emerges as a wily and daring commander who was at his steely-eyed best when outgunned by the enemy. His coolness under fire is revealed in lively accounts of his rescuing Nelson from destruction and the entrapment of a 26-ship enemy fleet with a tiny, four-vessel squadron. At Trafalgar, he was seen calmly munching an apple as he led his squadron, guns blazing, into furious battle. It was Collingwood, himself devastated by the loss, who delivered the news of Nelson's death to a nation stunned by the tragic price of victory.".
| Author | : S. D. Nelson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
A biography of Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six soldiers to raise the United States flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, an event immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.
| Author | : Stephanie Jones |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2011-05-12 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1857884922 |
Lord Nelson's widely admired approach to leadership and management is distilled into a series of practical insights for today's managers.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Gallopade International |
| Total Pages | : 16 |
| Release | : 19?? |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780635026170 |
Time Inc. presents a biographical sketch of Nelson Mandela as part of the "LIFE" magazine Hall of Heroes. South African statesman and President Nelson Mandela (1918- ) was a political activist and spent 26 years in prison before the collapse of apartheid.
| Author | : Editors of TIME Magazine |
| Publisher | : Time Home Entertainment |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : 2013-12-13 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1618939513 |
Join TIME to explore the full story of Nelson Mandela, the remarkable man whose incandescent smile, forgiving spirit and work for reconciliation made him one of the most significant leaders of the 20th century and one of the most admired people in the world. TIME Nelson Mandela traces the twin journeys of Mandela and his nation away from the hateful system of racist apartheid to the creation of a modern South Africa where all people are free. Here is Mandela’s journey in full detail: his birth in a grass hut as a prince of the Thembu tribe … his work as an inspiring young lawyer fighting for civil rights for blacks … his years as an underground freedom fighter … and the 27 years he spent in jail as a political prisoner. And here is his incredible return to freedom, when he moved the world by vowing to forgive his captors and to reconcile all the people of his land, steering his nation away from a racial war. TIME Nelson Mandela features a personal and insightful introduction by TIME managing editor Richard Stengel, the co-writer of Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. Here is history as only TIME can tell it: rich, clear, incisive and filled with the details that bring the story of one of our great modern heroes to fresh, inspiring life.
| Author | : Jonathan North |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 2018-07-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1445679388 |
The forgotten crime of England's greatest hero, Nelson, in the midst of his affair with Lady Hamilton.
| Author | : Craig Nelson |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2003-09-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1440650802 |
Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, eighty brave young men, led by the famous daredevil Jimmy Doolittle, took off from a navy carrier in the mid-Pacific on what everyone regarded as a suicide mission but instead became a resounding American victory and helped turn the tide of the war. The First Heroes is the story of that mission. Meticulously researched and based on interviews with twenty of the surviving Tokyo Raiders, this is a true account that almost defies belief, a tremendous human drama of great personal courage, and a powerful reminder that ordinary people, when faced with extraordinary circumstances, can rise to the challenge of history.
