Dimensions
158 x 242 x 43mm
The definitive history of the Battle of Trafalgar, by the bestselling authors of The Finest Hour.
Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte dominated Europe and threatened Britain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy and the already legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson. Trafalgar takes readers from the claustrophobic turmoil of a gun-deck in battle, to the desperation of men pumping water from sinking hulks adrift in hurricane-force winds. Having fought in the most confused and bloody naval conflict that any had known, English, American, Irish, Spanish and French seamen then had to endure a terrifying combination of weather and circumstances - the stuff of every mariner’s nightmare.
The demands of life at sea - and the extraordinary mix of characters of Trafalgar - make compelling reading.