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This fresh and groundbreaking biography illuminates the life and analyzes the fabled reputation of Britain's most famous admiral and naval hero. The controversial aspects of Horatio Nelson's life and career, such as his involvement in the defeat of the Napoleonic revolution and his notorious love affair with Lady Hamilton, are comprehensively explored and new research reveals fresh insights into the character of this complex man and the way his image was developed by successive generations of biographers and naval historians.

Czisnik also traces how the figure of Nelson has evolved in the popular imagination during the past two hundred years, examining imagery, propaganda and fiction, as well as the perception of the admiral from French, Spanish and German perspectives. This distinctive contribution to biography expertly reveals how the real man has been obscured, distorted and misunderstood by those who promoted image over reality.

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This fresh and groundbreaking biography illuminates the life and analyzes the fabled reputation of Britain's most famous admiral and naval hero. The controversial aspects of Horatio Nelson's life and career, such as his involvement in the defeat of the Napoleonic revolution and his notorious love affair with Lady Hamilton, are comprehensively explored and new research reveals fresh insights into the character of this complex man and the way his image was developed by successive generations of biographers and naval historians.

Czisnik also traces how the figure of Nelson has evolved in the popular imagination during the past two hundred years, examining imagery, propaganda and fiction, as well as the perception of the admiral from French, Spanish and German perspectives. This distinctive contribution to biography expertly reveals how the real man has been obscured, distorted and misunderstood by those who promoted image over reality.

Marianne Czisnik,Horatio Nelson A Controversial Hero,Bloomsbury Academic,0340900210,Europe - Great Britain,United Kingdom, Great Britain,Admirals - Great Britain,Admirals;Great Britain;Biography.,Great Britain - History, Naval - 18th century,Great Britain - History, Naval - 19th century,Great Britain;History, Naval;18th century.,Great Britain;History, Naval;19th century.,Nelson, Horatio Nelson,102906 Bloomsbury Academic Text,1758-1805,18th century,Admirals,BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military,Biography,Biography Autobiography,Biography / Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Biography historical,Biography historical, political military,British Irish history c 1700 to c 1900,Great Britain,HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General,History / Europe / Great Britain,History, Naval,Maritime history,Military,Nelson, Horatio Nelson,,Viscount,,c 1700 to c 1800

Horatio Nelson A Controversial Hero (9780340900215) Marianne Czisnik Books

 

Product details Paperback 240 pages Publisher Bloomsbury Academic; 1 edition (September 30, 2005) Language English ISBN-10 0340900210

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