Synopses & Reviews
Horatio Nelson was one of the most successful leaders Britain has ever produced. A legend in his own lifetime, he has inspired many hundreds of books. But few of these have concentrated on him as a naval commander - indeed the last major such study was published over thirty years ago.
Since then much new material has emerged, both as a result of the Nelson Letters Project and in a series of international conferences on Nelson's battles involving French, Spanish and Danish historians. In particular, the discovery of Nelson's personal order books and battle plans have transformed our understanding of his command methods.
Colin White has been at the forefront of all these developments and has made many of the most exciting new discoveries himself. He is therefore ideally placed to offer a fresh analysis of Nelson's tactics and leadership style.
White presents new narratives of all three of Nelson's great battles, the Nile (1798), Copenhagen (1801) and Trafalgar (1805). He shows how the British triumph at Trafalgar was the culmination of years of thought and experimentation on Nelson's part, and by his contemporaries and predecessors. He also uses the new material to demonstrate Nelson's remarkable administrative skills, and his abilities as a diplomat and intelligence officer - aspects of his leadership that have not been fully highlighted before.
The result is a different portrait of Nelson as an admiral - more rounded and more insightful than any yet achieved.
Officially endorsed by the Royal Navy and the Royal Naval Museum, the book is illustrated in colour and black and white with over seventy images drawn from the collections of the Royal Naval Museum and National Maritime Museum, and with specially drawn diagrams illustrating Nelson's battles and campaigns.
Synopsis
Horatio Nelson was one of the most successful leaders Britain has ever produced. In this new edition of Nelson, the late Colin White offers a fascinating analysis of Nelson's tactics and leadership style through gripping narratives of all three of Nelson's great battlesthe Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar. He brilliantly shows how the British triumph at Trafalgar was the culmination of years of thought and experimentation on Nelson's part, and by his contemporaries and predecessors. He also uses new material to demonstrate Nelson's remarkable administrative skills, and his abilities as a diplomat and intelligence officeraspects of his leadership that have not been fully highlighted before. The result is an enthrallingly different portrait of Nelson as an admiral more rounded and more insightful than any yet achieved.
Synopsis
Paperback edition of classic hardbackPublished in association with the Royal Naval Museum Specially drawn diagrams illustrating Nelsons battles and campaigns Horatio Nelson was one of the most successful leaders Britain has ever produced. In this new edition of Nelson, The Admiral, the late Colin White offers a fascinating analysis of Nelsons tactics and leadership style through gripping narratives of all three of Nelsons great battles (the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar). He brilliantly shows how the British triumph at Trafalgar was the culmination of years of thought and experimentation on Nelsons part, and by his contemporaries and predecessors. He also uses new material to demonstrate Nelsons remarkable administrative skills, and his abilities as a diplomat and intelligence officer - aspects of his leadership that have not been fully highlighted before. The result is an enthrallingly different portrait of Nelson as an admiral more rounded and more insightful than any yet achieved.
About the Author
THE LATE COLIN WHITE was Deputy Director of the Royal Navy Museum and served at the National Maritime Museum helping to co-ordinate the Trafalgar bicentenary events. One of Britains foremost naval historians, he was a well-known and respected authority on Nelson and Trafalgar and the author of The Nelson Companion (Sutton, 2005) and 1797: Nelsons Year of Destiny (Sutton, 1998). He lived in London.