Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar
10 best books like Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar (Adam Nicolson): The Warrior King and the Invasion of France: Henry V, Agincourt, and the Campaign that Shaped Medieval England, Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence, Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World, The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy, Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron: The War of 1812 and the Forging of the American Navy, The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson, Destiny in the Desert: The Story Behind El Alamein - the Battle That Turned the Tide, Waterloo: The Aftermath, Wellington: The Years of the Sword, Flames Across the Border: 1813-1814
| Author | Desmond Seward |
| ISBN | 1605986445 |
In the course of the Hundred Years War, Henry V was the English figure most responsible for the mutual antipathy that existed between France and England. His art of attacking an opponent by making total war on civilians, as well as soldiers, created tremendous distrust and enmity between the two countries,...
| Author | A.J. Langguth |
| ISBN | 0743226186 |
The War of 1812 gets only minor attention it seems. Thinking back to high school, all I can really remember is that it had something to do with the British taking sailors off of American ships by force, some battles on the Great Lakes, and Andrew Jackson kicking some serious Brit bootie at New Orleans. Oh...
Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World
| Author | Roy A. Adkins |
| ISBN | 0670034487 |
"In this account of the Battle of Trafalgar, Roy Adkins stunningly evokes the unsurpassed violence of nineteenth-century naval warfare. For more than five hours, sixty ships fought at close quarters as their occupants struggled under the constant barrage of cannon and musket fire, amid choking...
| Author | Nicholas A.M. Rodger |
| ISBN | 0393314693 |
Ok now that I have my trousers on (no britches for me today (view spoiler)[ or any other day (hide spoiler)].
| Author | Ronald Utt |
| ISBN | 1621570029 |
The War of 1812 is typically noted for a handful of events: the burning of the White House, the rise of the Star Spangled Banner, and the battle of New Orleans. But in fact the greatest consequence of that distant conflict was the birth of the U.S. Navy. During the War of 1812, America’s tiny fleet took...
The acclaimed naval historian Roger Knight has written a magisterial biography of one of the greatest military heroes of world history. How did Horatio Nelson achieve such extraordinary success? Roger Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy of his time. Nelson was passionate and...
| Author | Jonathan Dimbleby |
| ISBN | 1846684447 |
This is a unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein - 'the end of the beginning' - and the bloody battle that followed...It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'it is not the end nor is it the beginning of...
| Author | Paul O'Keeffe |
| ISBN | 1468311301 |
In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared,...
| Author | Elizabeth Longford |
| ISBN | 0831756462 |
For most of us Wellington equals Waterloo. But Waterloo was one peak only in the career of this phenomenal man, and it is the achievement of this major biography that it reveals the subtlety and full variety of Wellington's genius as well as the fascinating complexity of England in his time.
He...
| Author | Pierre Berton |
| ISBN | 0385658389 |
The Canada–U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812 continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire, Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington, far to the south, was put to the torch. The War of 1812 had become one of the nineteenth...
Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914
| Author | Richard Holmes |
| ISBN | 0007137532 |
From the bestselling author of Tommy and Redcoat, a magnificent and rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire, making full use of personal accounts of soldiers who served in the vast and varied nation that made up the jewel in Britain's imperial crown. Sahib is a broad...
The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers.
The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s definitive biography of John A. Macdonald follows his life from his birth in Scotland in 1815 to his...
| Author | Paul Strathern |
| ISBN | 0553806785 |
“Europe is a molehill….”
Everything here is worn out…tiny Europe has not enough to offer.
We must set off for the Orient; that is where all the greatest glory is to be achieved.” —Napoleon
Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt was the first Western attack in modern times...
David Cordingly, a leading authority on pirates and maritime history, The Billy Ruffian is the story of a real-life H.M.S. Sophie, named Bellerophon, or Billy Ruffian as her crew called her, barnacles and all. Under fourteen captains, she played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous of all...
| Author | Scott Weidensaul |
| ISBN | 0151012474 |
From the moment Europeans arrived in North America, they were awestruck by a continent awash with birds—great flocks of wild pigeons, prairies teeming with grouse, woodlands alive with brilliantly colored songbirds. Of a Feather traces the colorful origins of American birding: the frontier...
| Author | Arthur Herman |
| ISBN | 0060534257 |
To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian Arthur Herman tells the spellbinding tale of great...
| Author | Gary E. Weir |
| ISBN | 0465091121 |
For devotees of the submarine espionage stories in Blind Man's Bluff, Rising Tide tells the Soviet/Russian side of the most secretive operations of the Cold War. For the first time, seven Soviet admirals, along with leading naval historian Dr. Gary Weir, reveal the successful spying missions, the...
| Author | Winston S. Churchill |
The fourth of Churchill's grandly ambitious four-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples begins with the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars-and ends with the Boer War of 1902. In it, Churchill makes an impassioned argument for the crucial role played by the English-speaking people in exporting...
The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV
| Author | W.H. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0881339210 |
Pleasures and palaces are, of course, an enormously entertaining part of this vivid account of France under Louis XIV. More important is the author's exploration of the political, economic, social and artistic forces that developed during the long reign of the Sun-King. It was an age of contradictions...
| Author | John Sugden |
| ISBN | 0805079343 |
The most authoritative and captivating account ever written of legendary British naval commander Horatio Nelson's early career and rise to prominence
Among military and naval commanders, Horatio Nelson stands as one of the finest examples of inspirational leadership. The historian...
| Author | Judith Flanders |
| ISBN | 0007172958 |
A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women from the author of the bestselling 'The Victorian House'.Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a knife...
| Author | Dominic Lieven |
| ISBN | 0713996374 |
Tho much has been written about Napoleon's doomed invasion of Russia & the collapse of the French Empire that ensued, virtually all of it has been from the Western perspective. Now, taking advantage of never- before-seen documents from the Russian archives, Lieven upends much of the conventional...
