{"product_id":"nelson-the-sword-of-albion-9781847922762","title":"Nelson: The Sword of Albion","description":"\u003cp\u003eUndoubtedly the most comprehensive and intimate biography of Nelson ever written  The Sword of Albion encompasses the high dramas of the Battles of the Nile  Copenhagen and Trafalgar.  Sugden brilliantly interweaves graphic accounts of Nelsons famous victories at the battles of the Nile  Copenhagen and Trafalgar with his lesser-known yet equally gripping campaigns to liberate the Italian states from French domination and his role in the blockade of Malta  often snatching remarkable triumphs from crippling reverses. But behind his military prowess was a man riven with paradoxes and schisms at the very heart of his personal life.  Nelson emerges as a strong-minded but vulnerable human being in constant need of affection and reassurance  whose relations with superiors  colleagues and friends were intense and stormy. We meet the fighting admiral in search of ultimate military victory  and the glory-hunter skillfully manipulating his public image; the national hero and patron of merit  and the indigent commoner trying to secure his position in a society dominated by wealth  property and land; the family man  and the adulterer who scandalized society by his passion for the mercurial Lady Hamilton -- yet whose ambition for domestic tranquility was destroyed by his untimely death at Trafalgar.  The triumphant and the tragic lend an epic yet human quality to the life of Nelson  fully exploited here in a richly detailed narrative that teems with a glittering array of sailors and civilians  heroes and villains  husbands  wives and lovers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666336505909,"sku":"ByrdShop_1847922767","price":72.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781847922762.jpg?v=1782428659","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/nelson-the-sword-of-albion-9781847922762","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}