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100 1 _aHibbert, Christopher
_d, 1942-
245 1 0 _aNelson
_b: a personal history
_c/ Christopher Hibbert
260 _aReading, MA
_b: Addison-Wesley
_c, c1994.
300 _axvii, 472 p., [32] p. of plates
_b: geneal. table, ill. (some col.)
_c; 25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [444]-453) and index.
520 _aAn absorbing biography of the "great and gallant" Horatio Nelson, the one-eyed, one-armed sailor who caught the imagination of late 18th century England and gained immortal fame by dying heroically at the Battle of Trafalgar. Hibbert illuminates, among other things, Nelson's personality, his personal and political friendships, his relationship with Sir William Hamilton, and his passionate love affair with Hamilton's wife, Emma, revealing the man in all of his faults and virtues. Well-illustrated, including a few color plates.
650 4 _aNelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805
650 _aAdmirals
_z-Great Britain
_v--Biography
651 4 _aGreat Britain
_x-History, Military
_y-18th century
651 _aGreat Britain
_x-History, Naval
_y-19th century
942 _cMO
999 _c264133
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