The most authoritative and captivating account ever written of legendary British naval commander Horatio Nelson's early career and rise to prominence Among military and naval commanders, Horatio Nelson stands as one of the finest examples of inspirational leadership. The historian John Sugden charts the period of Nelson's career neglected by earlier writers-from childhood to his breathtaking victory against the Spanish fleet at Cape St. Vincent when he became an admiral, lost an arm, and won international fame. Like Alexander of Macedon, Nelson led from the front (not always a sensible custom). But he was a natural leader and a genuine hero, and his actions invariably raised his stock with his men, who trusted him as a commander willing to share their dangers.Nelson combines groundbreaking scholarship with a vivid and compelling narrative style. Detailing every facet of Nelson's crowded life, the author offers the only full account of Nelson's early voyages and the first complete analysis of the formative incidents in his career. Throughout there are revealing and startling discoveries about Nelson's relationships with family, patrons, officers, and men-and with his women. Previous biographies have failed to penetrate the mythology encrusting one of the world's greatest naval heroes, and none has been based on a thorough examination of original sources. Nelson will immediately become the benchmark against which all subsequent books about Nelson will be judged. It is a biography of the best sort: compelling, authoritative, and thrillingly alive.

Nelson: A Dream of Glory

Biographies & Memoirs

Sugden, John.

Historical

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

Nelson: we think that we are familiar with the man behind the name. But, in this second volume of his authoritative biography, John Sugden delves behind the myths, strips back the apocrypha, and reveals a figure both intimately familiar and greatly estranged.Sugden interweaves graphic accounts of the well-known battles of the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar with Nelson's lesser-known but equally gripping campaigns to liberate the Italian states from French domination, his role in the blockade of Malta and his turbulent relations with the volatile Barbary powers, often snatching remarkable triumphs from crippling reverses. But behind his military prowess was a man riven with paradoxes and schisms at the very heart of his personal life. Sugden paints a vivid composition of Nelson as glory-hunter and national hero, humanitarian and hardened military leader, family man and adulterer.Sugden opens up to us a man who was ever thwarted in his quest for happiness and pers

Nelson: The Sword of Albion by Sugden, John (2012) Hardcover

Bodley Head

Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies: Playing with Enemies (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)

Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace-building. In this important study, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson draw on their extensive international experience of working with divided communities to develop a methodological and theoretical model for peace-building in sport. The book showcases original case studies from three regions of the world in which sport has played a prominent role in social deconstruction and reconstruction: Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and South Africa. Combining a wealth of primary and secondary data, the authors chart the rise of the contemporary Sport for Development and Peace movement (SDP) and outline an important new practice-based framework for understanding, researching and working to achieve positive social change in the SDP sector. This is essential reading for any student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport development, international development, peace studies or conflict resolution. in the SDP sector. This is essential reading for any student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport development, international development, peace studies or conflict resolution.

Tomlinson, Alan

Reference

Routledge

Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace-building. In this important study, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson draw on their extensive international experience of working with divided communities to develop a methodological and theoretical model for peace-building in sport. The book showcases original case studies from three regions of the world in which sport has played a prominent role in social deconstruction and reconstruction: Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and South Africa. Combining a wealth of primary and secondary data, the authors chart the rise of the contemporary Sport for Development and Peace movement (SDP) and outline an important new practice-based framework for understanding, researching and working to achieve positive social change in the SDP sector.  This is essential reading for any student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport development, international development, peace studies or conflict resolution.

Examines the life of the Elizabethan adventurer and seafarer who circumnavigated the globe and helped defeat the Spanish Armada

Sir Francis Drake

Touchstone Books

This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer’s life.

Paganini (The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers)

Arts & Photography

Music

Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books

Examines the life of the Elizabethan adventurer and seafarer who circumnavigated the globe and helped defeat the Spanish Armada

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. A good, clean and sound softcover copy. Tecumseha life. xvii, 492 p. :. . Originally published: New York : Henry Holt &amp; Co., 1998; Includes bibliographical references and index.. ; .

Tecumseh

Pimlico

The most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson’s early career and rise to prominence — it is certain to become the benchmark book on Nelson. There have been numerous biographies of Nelson, but most fail to penetrate the mythology encrusting Britain’s greatest naval hero. John Sugden has examined thousands of naval, military, diplomatic and personal documents. He has ruthlessly stripped away the legends and brilliantly reconstructed Nelson’s private and public life. Nelson: A Dream of Glory charts the period of Nelson’s career most neglected by earlier writers — from childhood to his debut as a public hero after the victory against the Spanish fleet at Cape St. Vincent, when he became an admiral and stood on the verge of international fame. Dealing with every facet of Nelson’s life — the man, the naval officer and the Georgian — John Sugden offers the only full account of his early voyages and the first complete analysis of the formative incidents in his career including his conflict with civil and naval superiors in the West Indies, his campaigns in Corsica and his service as a commodore in the Mediterranean. Throughout there are revealing discoveries about his relationships with his family, patrons, officers and also, with his women.

Leaders & Notable People

This text examines the political nature of sport and leisure in Northern Ireland as an (often overlooked) aspect of the divided community. The politics of partition are integral to the rivalry between clubs, to the support the clubs receive, and even to the very choice of games played and watched.

SPORT, SECTARIANISM AND SOCIETY (Sport, Politics and Culture)

Sports & Outdoors

Leicester University Press

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Nelson: A Dream of Glory

Nelson: The Sword of Albion by Sugden, John (2012) Hardcover

Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies: Playing with Enemies (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)

Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies: Playing with Enemies (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)

Sir Francis Drake

Paganini (The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers)

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE

Tecumseh

Nelson: A Dream of Glory

SPORT, SECTARIANISM AND SOCIETY (Sport, Politics and Culture)