Nelson A Dream Of Glory

Author : John Sugden
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805077575
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nelson written by John Sugden and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Sugden has penned one of the most authoritative and captivating accounts ever written of legendary British naval commander Horatio Nelson's early career and rise to prominence.

Author : John Sugden
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1847922767
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nelson written by John Sugden and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undoubtedly the most comprehensive and intimate biography of Nelson ever written, The Sword of Albion encompasses the high dramas of the Battles of the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar. Sugden brilliantly interweaves graphic accounts of Nelson's famous victories at the battles of the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar with his lesser-known yet equally gripping campaigns to liberate the Italian states from French domination and his role in the blockade of Malta, 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. Nelson emerges as a strong-minded but vulnerable human being in constant need of affection and reassurance, whose relations with superiors, colleagues and friends were intense and stormy. We meet the fighting admiral in search of ultimate military victory, and the glory-hunter skillfully manipulating his public ℑ the national hero and patron of merit, and the indigent commoner trying to secure his position in a society dominated by wealth, property and l∧ the family man, and the adulterer who scandalized society by his passion for the mercurial Lady Hamilton -- yet whose ambition for domestic tranquility was destroyed by his untimely death at Trafalgar. The triumphant and the tragic lend an epic yet human quality to the life of Nelson, fully exploited here in a richly detailed narrative that teems with a glittering array of sailors and civilians, heroes and villains, husbands, wives and lovers.

Author : John Sugden
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448129508
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Francis Drake written by John Sugden and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How well do you know the life of one of Britain’s great maritime heroes? Discover the truth behind a man who remains a legendary figure of history more than four hundred years after his death. Sir Francis Drake’s career is one of the most colourful on record. The most daring of the corsairs who raided the West Indies and Spanish Main, he led the English into the Pacific, and cirumnavigated the world to bring home the Golden Hind laden with Spanish treasure. His attacks on Spanish cities and ships transformed his private war into a struggle for surivival between Protestant England and Catholic Spain, in which he became Elizabeth I's most prominent admiral and marked the emergence of England as major maritime nation. ‘Excellent...It deserves to become the standard Drake life. His scholarship is impeccable’ Frank McLynn, Sunday Telegraph

Author : Roger Knight
Publisher : Perseus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Victory written by Roger Knight and published by Perseus Books. This book was released on 2005-11-28 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While fully acknowledging Nelson's extraordinary charisma and skill as a leader, Knight takes a cool look at the old orthodoxies about Nelson's deep humanity and Christian piety, demonstrating the ruthlessness that was a core aspect of his personality.

Author : Andrew Lambert
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571265707
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nelson written by Andrew Lambert and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fascinating . . . Shot through with fresh insights . . . No previous biography has attempted anything so comprehensive.' ObserverNelson is a thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest practitioner of naval command the world has ever seen. It explores the professional, personal, intellectual and practical origins of one man's genius, to understand how the greatest warrior that Britain has ever produced transformed the art of conflict, and enabled his country to survive the challenge of total war and international isolation. In Nelson, Andrew Lambert - described by David Cannadine as 'the outstanding British naval historian of his generation' - is able to offer new insights into the individual quality which led Byron rightly to celebrate Nelson's genius as 'Britannia's God of War'. He demonstrates how Admiral Nelson elevated the business of naval warfare to the level of the sublime. Nelson's unique gift was to take that which other commanders found complex, and reduce it to simplicity. Where his predecessors and opponents saw a particular battle as an end in itself, Nelson was always a step ahead - even in the midst of terrifying, close-quarters action, with officers and men struck down all around him. 'Excellent . . . Worthy of the stirring events [it celebrates].' Independent

Author : Laura Powell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1619631199
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burn Mark written by Laura Powell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-packed drama full of urban gangs, witches, and a modern day Inquisition.

Author : Dwight K. Nelson
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN 13 : 082802541X
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chosen written by Dwight K. Nelson and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you think of being chosen, does your mind go back to recess days on that schoolyard playground long ago, when Teacher asked the two biggest boys in the class to choose up teams? Remember how the rest of you lined up, dutifully waiting for your name to be called? And remember how you stood there, nervously holding your breath, shifting your weight from one sneaker to the other, hoping against hope that this time you'd be chosen? Good news. You have been chosen! Maybe not for the starting lineup on your school's basketball team or for the next promotion at work. But your calling is much more extraordinary For "you are a chosen people, . . . a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light" (1 Peter 2:9, NIV). Who is this God who has chosen you? Why have you been chosen? And how are the chosen to live? Join Dwight K. Nelson in an experience with God that will revolutionize your life as you stand where the chosen of old once stood on the brink of the Promised Land

Author : Donald A. Tortorice
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496932366
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I, Horatio written by Donald A. Tortorice and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first presentation of the life of Horatio Nelson to be narrated in the first person, a recounting of his life in his own words. It begins with Nelson as a young 21-year-old captain in the Caribbean and goes to his death at the Battle of Trafalgar. Along the way his experiences in carrying out the vision of his duty in the Caribbean, Corsica, Tenerife, the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar cost him his eye, his right arm, and ultimately his life, all because he was blessed and cursed with a nature that was blind to the spectre of failure and deaf to anything other than the call of duty, the clamour of battle, and victory. He was also a mortal man whose attraction to women brought pleasure, frustration, infatuation, and ultimately lifelong satisfaction. This is his story as he would tell it.

Author : Jerame Nelson
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
ISBN 13 : 1780783752
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encountering Angels written by Jerame Nelson and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is full of stories of angels interacting with humankind, but what about today? In this breakthrough book by prophet Jerame Nelson, you will understand that angels do indeed dwell among us, and play an important role in God's plan of evangelism. More than just an interesting collection of angel encounters, Nelson goes beyond just describing angels (amazing encounters, their biblical significance, etc.) to revealing: - The purpose of angels in human form; - Varieties and types of angels; - How angels can help transform your life; - How to position yourself for angelic encounters; - Their role in God's destiny and plan. The history of the entire Gospel was shaped through angelic activity. Today it may not be as common to hear about angelic visitations and encounters, but they exist and are happening right in our midst!

Author : Desmond Tutu
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0385512627
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God Has a Dream written by Desmond Tutu and published by Image. This book was released on 2003-03-16 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu has long been admired throughout the world for the heroism and grace he exhibited while encouraging countless South Africans in their struggle for human rights. In God Has a Dream, his most soul-searching book, he shares the spiritual message that guided him through those troubled times. Drawing on personal and historical examples, Archbishop Tutu reaches out to readers of all religious backgrounds, showing how individual and global suffering can be transformed into joy and redemption. With his characteristic humor, Tutu offers an extremely personal and liberating message. He helps us to “see with the eyes of the heart” and to cultivate the qualities of love, forgiveness, humility, generosity, and courage that we need to change ourselves and our world. Echoing the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., he writes, “God says to you, ‘I have a dream. Please help me to realize it. It is a dream of a world whose ugliness and squalor and poverty, its war and hostility, its greed and harsh competitiveness, its alienation and disharmony are changed into their glorious counterparts. When there will be more laughter, joy, and peace, where there will be justice and goodness and compassion and love and caring and sharing. I have a dream that my children will know that they are members of one family, the human family, God’s family, my family.’” Addressing the timeless and universal concerns all people share, God Has a Dream envisions a world transformed through hope and compassion, humility and kindness, understanding and forgiveness.