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Article: Nelson in the Caribbean: The Hero Emerges, 1784-1787.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 2004
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Nelson in the Caribbean: The Hero Emerges, 1784-1787. By Joseph F. Callo. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 230. $34.95.)
How do people become heroes? In this book, Joseph F. Callo endeavors to answer that question by examining just three years in the life of Admiral Lord Nelson, probably Britain's greatest and certainly most well-known naval personality. These years are not those of stunning victories and public adulation, but rather ones of peacetime problems and public harassment. In standard biographies of Nelson, they have warranted a chapter, but Callo, the author of two other books on the admiral, has chosen to explore them in detail ...
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