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Title: Nelson: Love & Fame by Edgar Vincent ISBN: 0-300-09797-2 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: YES this is a five star book
Comment: I disagree with "Rheumor" (below) who thinks that we should not compare books about Lord Nelson. We can't (I can't anyway) buy EVERY book, so it is helpful to learn that this book, by Edgar Vincent, is not as good as Joel Hayward's in terms of original military analysis, but may be as good, or possibly better, in terms of narrating the admiral's entire life. Hayward's book, after all, is not strictly a biography. Vincent's is.
Isn't this a good distinction to note?
My advice is buy both because they both contain different things and both reach an outstanding standard.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent biography.
Comment: There's no need to compare one work on Nelson to another. He's an interesting enough subject for there to have been many interesting books on his life.
This one appeals to me because it is written by someone who is neither a professional historian nor an author. It must have involved an enormous "learning curve" and then even more labor in learning the complex history. I also give Mr. Vincent credit for almost never passing moral judgment on an individual whose morals were certainly flawed (oh poor Fanny!).
In any case, it's entertaining and informative and flows quite well. Nelson is so "human", so many foibles, but he truly deserves the sobriquet "Father of Modern Royal Navy".
Large scale tactical planning as well as "modern" command and control structure were instinctive to him. So too was his ability to inspire his officers and men through bravery and a sense of justice and concern that hardly existed before his era.
All England can be proud of their hero.
Rating: 5
Summary: Russell Crowe liked it, so did my dad, a friend, &
Comment: so I am reading it next.
FROM TIME MAGAZINE, Nov 2003 issue:
To play Master and Commander's Jack Aubrey, [Russell Crowe] spent months learning the violin and studying the linguistic origins of his character's accent. "But the vast majority of it is reading," he says, guiding me to a sagging bookcase. "You've got Sailing for Dummies ..." He laughs, but there it is, next to several dozen more sophisticated volumes on naval history, one of which-Nelson: Love & Fame, by Edgar Vincent-is almost in tatters. Admiral Nelson is mentioned only briefly in the film, yet Crowe highlighted and Post-it-noted the text like a grad student. "I wanted to have an intimate knowledge about Nelson," he says. "I wanted to feel the sense of him, because Jack served with him as a very young man, at least that's the legend of the fictitious character. None of this research is a burden," he adds. "I'm just inquisitive."
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Title: John Paul Jones : Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas ISBN: 0743205839 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 14 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Terror Before Trafalgar: Nelson, Napoleon, and the Secret War by Tom Pocock ISBN: 0393057763 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: For God and Glory: Lord Nelson and His Way of War by Joel S. A. Hayward ISBN: 1591143519 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie ISBN: 0679456716 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander ISBN: 067003133X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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