Penguin Books Harmondsworth 1963

stan dobry plus

str. 399

format 11 x 18 cm

waga 230 g

By his victories in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Atlantic, Nelson ensured for Britain a century of almost complete security. No other man in English history has ever to the same extent been both the darling and the hero of all the people, and his most human failings have always formed a good part of the legend. This full-length personal portrait, drawn by Oliver Warner, shows the little vice-admiral very much as he must have been, in public and in private. If he invited scandal by his association with Lady Hamilton and if (as is here revealed for the first time) he kept a mistress at Leghorn, he was also the most courageous, the most intelligent, the most inspired, and - in advance of his time - the most humane leader of men. In such a man the conceit and the ribbons and the medals are only endearing.