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Biographies of Nelson
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Books on Trafalgar
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| Britannia Rules (1977) |
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| My favourite history of the period when Britain came to dominate the seas of the world. By C. Northcote Parkinson, author of the Nathianiel Drinkwater novels.
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| The Frigates (1970) |
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| James Henderson's specialised study of the role played by the most glamorous of the vessels engaged in the wars of 1793-1815.
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| Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars (1998) |
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| Another study of frigates of the period - one which concentrates more on technical details of design and construction - by Robert Gardiner.
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| The Age of Nelson (1996) |
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| Devoted to detailed studies of the battles of the period by David Lyon.
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| Nelson and the Nile (1998) |
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| Illustrated study of the campaign in the Eastern Mediterranean that culminated at Aboukir Bay by Brian Lavery.
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| Napoleon's Lost Fleet () |
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| Subtitled Bonaparte, Nelson, and the Battle of the Nile. An account of the same campaign by Laura Foreman and Ellen Blue Phillips.
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| Nelson against Napoleon (1998) |
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| Robert Gardiner and David Lyons tell the story from the Battle of the Nile to the (first) Battle of Copenhagen.
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| Every Man Will Do His Duty (1997) |
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| Edited by Dean King with substantial contribution from John Hattendorf, this is a collection of first hand accounts of the period.
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| Hornblower's Navy (1998) |
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| Coffee table book on the navy in Hornblower's time by Stephen Pope. Rather slim.
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| The Real Hornblower (1998) |
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| A biography of Admiral Sir James Gordon, who the author, Bryan Perrett, claims was the real-life model for Hornblower.
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