Author: Robert Southey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: Alfred Thayer Mahan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Author: Edgar Vincent
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300097972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 654

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An account of the British naval commander's life and career explores his leadership style, his victory against the Spanish fleet at Cape St. Vincent, and his relationships with women and family members.

Author: Terry Coleman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199924058
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Admiral Horatio Nelson captures our imaginations like few other military figures. A mixture of tactical originality, raw courage, cruelty, and romantic passion, Nelson in action was daring and direct, a paramount naval genius and a natural born predator. Now, in The Nelson Touch, novelist Terry Coleman provides a superb portrait of Britain's most revered naval figure. Here is a vivid account of Nelson's life, from his childhood and early career at sea--where a high-placed uncle helped speed his advancement to post captain--to gripping accounts of his greatest sea battles. Readers will witness the Battle of the Nile, where Nelson crushed a French squadron of thirteen ships of the line, and the Battle of Trafalgar, where he died at the moment of his greatest triumph. What emerges is a man of strength of mind amounting to genius, frequently generous, always fascinated with women, often uneasy with his superior officers, and absolutely fearless. Nelson was a ruthless commander, whose instinct was not just to defeat the enemy but to annihilate him. Sure to appeal to readers of Patrick O'Brian and other seafaring fiction, as well as all military history and naval history buffs, this is a superbly written biography that gives readers the texture and feel of this magnificent life.

Author: Dudley Pope
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755147650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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This is a well-researched and highly readable account of naval life, both ashore and at sea, from a respected and admired historian and writer of whom it was written: ‘An author who really knows Nelson’s navy’ (Ramage’s Prize - The Observer) and ‘An expert knowledge of naval history’ (Ramage at Trafalgar - The Guardian).

Author: Tommy Nelson
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 0805463917
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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In the desire and quest to make sense of the world and our existence, three great sirens have lured men and women into a lull with the empty promise to make their lives meaningful. The great king of Israel, Solomon, though the wisest man, was not immune to their song. But at the end of his life, Solomon, in all of his God-given wisdom, stopped to contemplate on all that competed for his attention. He wrote his conclusions in the Book of Ecclesiastes.Tommy Nelson continues his study of Solomon's writings by taking an in-depth look at Ecclesiastes. In a world such as ours, where the search for meaning and purpose propels mankind to try everything under the sun, Solomon's conclusions ring louder than ever for a people who need answers more than ever.

Author: Sonia Maasik
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312136314
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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Author: Deseret Book Company
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781629725918
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: The Nelson Mandela Foundation
Publisher: WW Norton
ISBN: 9780393070828
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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The fantastic, heroic life of Nelson Mandela, brought to life in this landmark graphic work. Nelson Mandela’s memoir, Long Road to Freedom, electrified the world in 1994 with the story of a solitary man who, despite unbelievable hardships, brought down one of the most-despised regimes in the world. Fifteen years after the publication of that classic work comes this fully authorized graphic biography, which relays in picture form the life story of the world’s greatest moral and political hero—from his boyhood in a small South African village to his growing political activism with the ANC, his twenty-seven-year incarceration as prisoner 46664 on Robben Island, his dramatic release, and his triumphant years as president of South Africa. With new interviews, firsthand accounts, and archival material that has only recently been uncovered, this visually dramatic biography promises to introduce Mandela’s gripping story to a whole new generation of readers.

Author: Peter J. Levinson
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 9781589791633
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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The first-ever biography of the highly respected arranger in the history of American popular music. Base on more than 200 interviews with his closest friends, family, and colleagues.