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Nelson: Love and Fame
Edgar Vincent (Yale University Press)
A man of contradictions, Nelson emerges in this biography
as a ruthless and aggressive leader, an ambitious attention-seeker
capable of self-pity, self-delusion, and childish behaviour;
yet to be admired for his transcendent courage, kindness
and leadership skills, which inspired love and affection
in those he led.
First-time author Edgar Vincent builds on the latest research
and brings a sharp and penetrating eye to bear on the extensive
primary sources on which his book is based, and enlarges
our understanding of the man.
Captured on these pages in all his vigour and complexity
Nelson is as charismatic a figure today as he was nearly
two hundred years ago.
Edgar Vincent entered the Royal Navy after graduating from
Oxford. He worked at ICI for many years, and then as a head-hunter
and management consultant. A lifetime student of Nelson,
this is Edgar Vincent’s first book.
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