Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty

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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty:
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In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widelyacclaimed God\'s Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, foughtbetween the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it toexamine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect ofthe hero? And daring? Why did the cult of the hero flower in the lateeighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a way it hadn\'t for two hundred years?Was the figure of Nelson -- intemperate, charming, theatrical, anxious, impetuous,considerate, indifferent to death and danger, inspirational to those aroundhim, and, above all, fixed on attack and victory -- an aberration inEnlightenment England? Or was the greatest of all English military heroessimply the product of his time, \"the conjuror of violence\" that England, atsome level, deeply needed? It is a story rich with modern resonance. This was abattle fought for the control of a global commercial empire. It was won by theemerging British world power, which was widely condemned on the continent of Europe as \"the arrogant usurper of the freedom ofthe seas.\" Seize the Fire not only vividly describes the brutal realitiesof battle but enters the hearts and minds of the men who were there; it is aportrait of a moment, a close and passionately engaged depiction of a frame ofmind at a turning point in world history.

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