Book description
Nelson: A Dream of Glory
is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever
written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. Giving us the
private as well as the public man, it combines ground-breaking
scholarship with a brilliantly vivid and compelling style. Dr John
Sudgen has pursued a busy trans-Atlantic career as a lecturer, senior
research fellow and writer. He is the author of a series of acclaimed
articles and books, including Sir Francis Drake
, Tecumseh: A Life
, which won the Distinguished Book Award of the American Society for
Military History, and Blue Jacket
, which won the Ohioana Award. This first volume of his definitive
biography, Nelson: A Dream of Glory,
was published to great critical acclaim in 2004 and was shortlisted for
the James Tait Black Prize.
