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Article: Remembering Nelson.(Nelson: Britannia's God of War)(Nelson: A Dream of Glory)(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- May 1, 2005
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Nelson: Britannia's God of War. Andrew Lambert. Faber and Faber. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxviii +446 pages. ISBN 0-571-21222-0. Nelson: A Dream of Glory. John Sugden. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]25.00. 752 pages. ISBN 0-224-06097-X.
There have been two new books this year to add to the already extensive library of Nelson biographies. The first, Andrew Lambert's Nelson: Britannia's God of War, follows the traditional path of many such biographies, tracing Nelson's life from the cradle to the grave and emphasising his four great battles. Only 81 pages cover his life before the battle of Cape St Vincent by which time he was 39 years of age and had only eight ...