Nelson

Nelson Speaks: Admiral Lord Nelson in His Own Words

Joseph F. Callo

Chatham Publishing

London

2001

xxxiv + 216pp.

ISBN 1 86176 174 0

£18.00

Keywords Navy, United Kingdom

The 200th anniversary of Nelson’s victory at Copenhagen is marked by Chatham with two quite different books, one a reprint and one a new work. The more straightforward is the biography written by the young C.S. Forester in 1929. He had then just begun to make his name as a novelist, and this background ensures that the book is not only well written but full of insights into Nelson’s character which...