A tremendously good read: Full of Historical facts coupled with a powerfully evocative building of the background, personality, experiences and epic events that made the man and the greatest Admiral the British Royal Navy has ever known. From callow youth literally all at sea (& seasick) to the winning commander of RN Fleets in sea battles from the North Sea to the Caribbean, Mediterranean and Atlantic. Victories that wrecked Napoleon Bonaparte's 'One Europe' & colonising ambitions. Culminating in his death defeating the French & Spanish navies at the Battle of Trafalgar as this superb biography confirms Horatio Nelson is one of the genuinely world renowned Seamen and a 'great' Briton in the story of Great Britain. ( )

Brought tears to my eyes when I read of the mortal wounding of the great admiral. ( )

Bought in Portsmouth England at Naval Dockyards ( )