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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780349116327
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This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain’s
most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed
gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes
from cannon and musket fire, amid noise so intense it was almost
tangible, the crews of the British, French and Spanish ships did
their best to carry out their allotted tasks. For over five hours
they were in constant danger from a terrifying array of iron and
lead missiles fired from enemy guns, as well as the deadly wooden
splinters smashed from the ships’ hulls by the cannon-balls. While
the men manoeuvred the ships and kept the cannons firing, the women
helped the surgeons tend the sick or helped the boys – the ‘powder
monkeys’ – in the hazardous job of carrying gunpowder cartridges
from the central magazine to the gun decks. Trafalgar set the seal
on British naval supremacy, which became the mainspring for the
growth of the British Empire, and in the short term not only
prevented Napoleon from invading Britain, but also enabled Britain
and its Continental allies to mount the campaign that would
eventually defeat the French Emperor: without Trafalgar there would
be no Waterloo.
most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed
gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes
from cannon and musket fire, amid noise so intense it was almost
tangible, the crews of the British, French and Spanish ships did
their best to carry out their allotted tasks. For over five hours
they were in constant danger from a terrifying array of iron and
lead missiles fired from enemy guns, as well as the deadly wooden
splinters smashed from the ships’ hulls by the cannon-balls. While
the men manoeuvred the ships and kept the cannons firing, the women
helped the surgeons tend the sick or helped the boys – the ‘powder
monkeys’ – in the hazardous job of carrying gunpowder cartridges
from the central magazine to the gun decks. Trafalgar set the seal
on British naval supremacy, which became the mainspring for the
growth of the British Empire, and in the short term not only
prevented Napoleon from invading Britain, but also enabled Britain
and its Continental allies to mount the campaign that would
eventually defeat the French Emperor: without Trafalgar there would
be no Waterloo.
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The blazing TRAFALGAR is at least the equal of STALINGRAD in
blood, pace and detail, but it also boasts a welcome twist to the
genre with a lacing of black humour INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Masterful
in explaining why Nelson’s men were so much more efficient …
Adkins has written a compelling account MAIL ON SUNDAY Well-written
and makes good use of first-hand accounts LITERARY REVIEW
[Adkins’s] painstaking digging, sifting, arranging and questioning
take him everywhere on Nelson’s fleet … His account of the battle
is a gripping album of snapshots from the quarterdecks and gun
decks of the ships themselves … A most eclectic but engagi
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