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To a nation consumed by war, Admiral Horatio Nelson is now a hero and Britain's best hope of victory. To those in power, he is an arrogant glory-seeker, too quick to disregard orders! Then there's Nelson's lover, Lady Emma Hamilton: shunned by the establishment for her checkered past. Nelson and Emma defy friends and enemies alike to follow destiny-as Nelson moves closer to the greatest naval battle in history.

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To a nation consumed by war, Admiral Horatio Nelson is now a hero and Britain's best hope of victory. To those in power, he is an arrogant glory-seeker, too quick to disregard orders! Then there's Nelson's lover, Lady Emma Hamilton: shunned by the establishment for her checkered past. Nelson and Emma defy friends and enemies alike to follow destiny-as Nelson moves closer to the greatest naval battle in history.
Autorenporträt
Born in Edinburgh in 1944, David Donachie has had a variety of jobs, including selling everything from business machines to soap. He has always had an abiding interest in the naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author of a number of bestselling books, he now lives in Deal, Kent with his wife, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook and their two children.