Publisher:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 2005, ISBN:0297846221:
(NELSON, Horatio). BEST, Nicholas. Trafalgar : The Untold Story of the Greatest Sea Battle in History . London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (2005). First Printing. Pp. [1]-352, + 16 p. of plates. Illustrated. 8vo, cream paper covered boards with red lettering to spine. "Two hundred years ago Napoleon Bonaparte planned to lead his Grande Armée to Britain, the only country still defying him. He drilled his huge invasion force at Calais, studied the Cliffs of Dover through his telescope, and issued orders to the French navalsquadrons in Toulon, Brest and Rochefort to draw off the Royal Navy in...
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