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Adam Nicholson
Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero
Hay Festival 2005,
Trafalgar gripped the nineteenth-century imagination like no other battle. It finished the global ambitions of a European tyrant but culminated in the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson, the greatest hero of the era.