Historical Non Fiction - Tom Pocock - Horatio Nelson (Tom Pocock's History of Nelson) Kindle Edition

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Runner-up for the Whitbread Biography Award of 1987.

This is the story of the man who saved Britain from invasion and gave it maritime supremacy.

Juxtaposing details of his daily life, loves, friendships and opinions with the great events which make him one of the most memorable figures in British history, Horatio Nelson gives us the admiral in all of his flawed and brilliant humanity.

Written with obvious authority, it takes us through his life from birth to death, not only with a wealth of new research, but also with a richness of quotation from contemporary letters and papers which provide dramatic details.

Horatio Nelson should have as much appeal to the general reader as to those with a knowledge of the naval history of the times.

Praise for Horatio Nelson:

‘Tom Pocock presents a complete and completely believable Nelson... It is unlikely that another could have handled Nelson with the same confidence and fluency’ - The Times Literary Supplement

‘Tom Pocock understands the Admiral. He is not frightened to say what Nelson thought, or felt. In consequence he has written a remarkably fine biography...’ - Evening Standard

‘A moving and absorbing story, here told with distinction’ - The Literary Review

Tom Pocock was the author of eighteen books (and editor of two more), mostly biographies but including two about his experiences as a newspaper war correspondent. Born in London in 1925, he was educated at Westminster School and Cheltenham College, joining the Royal Navy in 1943. He was at sea during the invasion of Normandy and, having suffered from ill health, returned to civilian life and in 1945 became a war correspondent at the age of nineteen, the youngest of the Second World War. He has contributed to many magazines and appeared on television documentaries about Nelson and the subject of another of his biographies, the novelist and imperialist Sir Rider Haggard.