In the original dustsheet. Black cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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A very good ” warts and all ” biography of Lord Nelson. He might have been a national hero but I’m not sure I would have liked him as a man. A good book.

Reviews:

• I loved this book. It tells of Nelson as he really was, warts and all. It ends abruptly directly after the funeral and I would have preferred to know just a little more about the aftermath. Also his family’s reactions to his death and what they did after. But I suppose that’s for another book.

• I loved this Personal History by Hibbert – one of my favourite historical authors. He has the talent for retelling history in a wonderfully entertaining narrative form backed up with original source material from surviving letters, reports etc. so that you can be sure that what you are reading is how it was. I loved how your own personal feelings for Nelson develop as you get to know him more deeply – at first he appears irritating, self-absorbed and vainglorious only to have you almost weeping at the loss of such a great man when in his prime. The account of the Battle of Trafalgar and his final hours are deeply moving. I also recommend Hibbert’s ‘Napoleon – His wives and women’ for those interested in getting to know Nelson’s nemesis too.

• Terrific! Full of fact, racy prose, great story. Truly great.

Author Christopher Hibbert (born Arthur Raymond Hibbert) MC (5 March 1924 – 21 December 2008), was an English writer, historian and biographer. He has been called “a pearl of biographers” (New Statesman) and “probably the most widely-read popular historian of our time and undoubtedly one of the most prolific” (The Times). Hibbert was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of many books, including The Story of England, Disraeli, Edward VII, George IV, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, and Cavaliers and Roundheads.