British Admirals of the Napoleonic Wars: The Contemporaries of Nelson

Around every reference collection there is, as it were, a penumbra of works that are almost, but not quite, reference books in the strict sense, and British Admirals of the Napoleonic Wars is in this group. It is a successor to an earlier volume by the same editors, entitled Precursors of Nelson (Harding and Le Fevre, 2000), a connection which explains the omission from it of several well known admirals dealt with in the earlier volume, notably Lord St Vincent. The average length of the chapters, each by a different author (not all of whom are professional historians)...