Remember Nelson: The life of Captain Sir William Hoste

History

Pocock,Tom

Europe

Collins

Nelson’s immortal victories were won in the seas around Europe but as Tom Pocock shows in this brilliant and original book it was the America and West Indies station that formed him as a sea officer an a fighting commander.

The Young Nelson in the Americas

Wm. Collins Sons & Co.

The fame of Horatio Nelson, as Britain's greatest naval hero, has always been shadowed by the notoriety of his relations with women. His love affair with Lady Hamilton and the subsequent abandonment of his wife have tainted with scandal his achievement in giving his country global supremacy for a century. Yet these two women were only the most prominent of a gallery of young women—family, friends, and lovers—who were instrumental in shaping Nelson's life and character. In this book, Tom Pocock examines the characters of Nelson's mother, sisters, wife and mistress, whose lives were interwoven with the complex, yet charming, personality of Lord Nelson.

Nelson's Women

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Andre Deutsch

In this book Tom Pocock examines the characters of the women whose lives were interwoven with the complex, yet charming, personality of Lord Nelson. Nelson's Women examines this great sea lord's relations with women as diverse as the haughty belle of the Quebec garrison and the sympathetic daughter of a country parson: the Jamaican nurse who saved the lives of British officers with unorthodox medicine and the Italian opera singer with whom he dallied when in port, as well as his beautiful young niece who played such a crucial role in Emma Hamilton's social ambitions.

Nelsons Women

Community & Culture

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Rider Haggard is remembered as the author of adventure novels, which shocked and fascinated not only Victorian and Edwardian Britain, but the world. Films of his books - notable "King Solomon's Mines" and "She" have been made, but Haggard, a Norfolk squire, saw his writing only as an amusing and lucrative pastime. The other Haggard, statesman and creator of a world of fact is explored in this book. His imagination was held by the reality of the British Empire and its future rather than the lost civilizations of his literary fantasies.

Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

Horatio Nelson

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated

“Here told in fascinating detail is the remarkable story of human and aesthetic relations represented by the friendship between James McNeill Whistler and his devotee, Walter Greaves.” Times Literary Supplement

Chelsea Reach: the brutal friendship of Whistler and Walter Greaves

Arts & Literature

Hodder&Stoughton

HORATIO NELSON

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Napoleon's threated invasion of England is examined in great detail, revealing a "secret war" being waged between the two powers employing spies and new weapons.

The Terror Before Trafalgar: Nelson, Napoleon, and the Secret War

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

"Narrative history at its shining best."--Economist Behind the scenes of Napoleon's threatened invasion of England, a war of wits known as "The Great Terror." In 1801, as Napoleon's Grande Armee faced an army of English volunteers across the Channel, a secret war of espionage and subversion was being fought by shadowy men with little-known names. New weaponsrockets, submarines, and torpedoeswere being developed in France by the American inventor Robert Fulton. Even during the lull of the Peace of Amiens, when English tourists flocked to Paris, the secret war continued. Drawing on diaries, letters, and newspapers, Tom Pocock provides a wonderful picture of the years 1801-5, and of the people caught up in these unique events: Nelson blockading the French at sea for two years while his beloved Emma Hamilton waited at home; Jane Austen and her naval brothers; the admirals, generals, and politicians on both sides; and perhaps most interesting of all, those lesser-known men such as Congreve, Moreau, and Pichegru, who were responsible for a new kind of warfare. 16 pages of b/w illustrations.

W.W.Norton&Company

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