Nelson And HMS Victory Books

Paperback By Geoffrey Bennett
The battle of Trafalgar has now passed into national mythology. The expertise, courage, determination and confidence which gave Britain a victory of spectacular finality in October 1805 also provided her with one of her great legendary figures - a naval hero in life but much more like a national, if very secular, saint in death. However, like the noise and smoke of battle, legends have a habit of obscuring facts and, having embodied themselves in popular imagination, are transcribed to the history books.

HMS Victory is probably the best-known historic ship in the world. A symbol of the Royal Navy’s achievements during the great age of sail, she is based in Portsmouth and seen by tens of thousands of visitors each year.

As is the case for many historic ships, however, there is a surprising shortage of informative and well illustrated guides, for reference during a visit or for research by enthusiasts - ship modellers, naval buffs, historians or students. This new series redresses the gap.

Written by experts and containing more than 200 specially commissioned photographs, each title will take the reader on a superbly illustrated tour of the ship, from bow to stern and deck by deck. Significant parts of the vessel – for example, the capstan, steering gear, armament, brody stove, cockpit, stern cabins – are given detailed coverage both in words and pictures, so that the reader has at hand the most complete visual record and explanation of the ship that exists.

In addition, the importance of the ship, both in her own time and now as a museum vessel, is explained, while her design and build, her fighting career and her life prior to restoration and exhibition are all described.

Written by experts and containing more than 200 specially commissioned photographs, each title takes the reader on a superbly illustrated tour of the ship, deck by deck.

Significant parts of the vessel – for example, the steering gear, armament and armour, engine-room and gundeck – are given detailed coverage so that the reader has at hand the most complete visual record and explanation of the ship that is at present available.

In addition, the importance of the ship, both in her own time and now as a museum vessel, is explained, while her design and build, her service career and her life prior to restoration and exhibition are all described.

Original Selling Price £60.00
Hardback By Richard Walker

In this beautiful book Richard Walker explores the iconography of Lord Nelson, a man at once vain and ravaged, glorified and ridiculed, whose exploits and achievements, both public and private, still fascinate today.

This beautifully illustrated book features hundreds of paintings of Horatio Lord Nelson, this book gives a detailed description about each painting and also tells you the current whereabouts of the original paintings.

Hardback By John Christopher
This is the story of Britain's most illustrious warship, immortalised as Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship in the Battle of Trafalgar. Constructed from the wood of over 6,000 trees, HMS Victory was designed as a 'first rate ship', the Admiralty's designation for its largest ships f the line which packed a formidable punch with over 100 guns arranged on three decks. In addition to the Battle of Trafalgar HMS Victory saw action in the First and Second Battles of Ushant and during the Battle of Cape St Vincent. After bringing Nelson's body back to England, the Victory sailed out on a number of expeditions until her retirement in 1812. This magnificent ship is now the centrepiece of Portsmouth's historic docks and serves as the oldest naval ship still in commission. "HMS Victory" provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the British sailors who served on her.

A complete set of 7 volumes, Volumes 1 -7
Horatio Nelson was a vivid and frank letter writer and his collection of letters has been compared with those of Pepys, Byron and Keats. The one edition of these letters was first published between 1844 and 1846 and is here reprinted in seven volumes. Volume V contains his correspondence from January 1802 to April 1804, including many letters to Lady Hamilton, and orders to his captains that show Nelson's skill as a fleet commander.
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Paperback Book By Stephanie Jones and Jonathan Gosling

This is a one-of-a-kind look at Nelson and his leadership skills Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson has been widely admired as a celebrated and effective leader. His dynamic approach to leadership and management has now been translated into a timeless, practical and contemporary insight for today's managers. Nelson's Way will bring 'The Nelson Touch' of luck, inspiration and leadership to everyone. Explaining how Nelson embodies the characteristics of the most successful of leaders, from bravery to determination, inspiration to luck and simplicity to unconventionality. Jones and Gosling explore and examine the self-made legend set against the backdrop of the high-seas, personal sacrifice, debilitating injuries and glorious conquests. With chapters including: Making Heroes, The Band of Brothers and Creating (and Sustaining) a Legend, Nelson's Way incorporates the latest research and joins a series of ground-breaking studies applying historical biography to business to create the most comprehensive insight into Nelson, his heroic exploits and legendary leadership skills.

Paperback
Leading Nelson scholar Marianne Czisnik illuminates the life and reputation of Britain’s most famous admiral in a fresh and groundbreaking manner. Some of the most controversial aspects of his life and career are explored, such as his involvement in the defeat of the Neapolitan revolution and his notorious love affair with Lady Hamilton. Along the way, new research is introduced that provides original insights into the character of this complex man and the way his image was developed by successive generations of biographers and naval historians.



The second part traces how Nelson has evolved in the popular imagination during the two hundred years since his death. This includes an examination of visual imagery, propaganda and fiction, as well as treatments of the admiral from a French, Spanish and German perspective. In this distinctive contribution to Nelson literature, Czisnik expertly reveals how the real man has been obscured, distorted and misunderstood by those for whom the image was more important than the reality.

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Hardback By John D Harbron
208 Pages

Hardback By C.Nepean Longridge
283 Pages
The history of Admiral Horatio Nelson has been written from every possible angle, but this was not so with his ships. Not until this work was first published in 1961. Before then, such information as there was about the ships was buried in archives on Naval Architecture; only the top expert could have sifted it and present it in a usable form, Dr Longridge was that expert, and his work became a veritable treasure trove for every naval historian and ship modeller. His research is supported by 271 detailed line drawings, rare photographs and fold-out plans showing hull framing, interior construction, complexing and deck layouts

Hardback By Victor T Sharman
256 Pages
Horatio Nelson's first captain was William Locker who recognised the exceptional talents of the young midshipman who was to become the most famous sailor in history. Thirty-seven years later Admiral Lord Nelson wrote to Locker 'I have been your scholar; it was you who taught me to board a Frenchman by your conduct...It is you who always taught me to lay a Frenchman close and you will beat him. My only merit in my profession is being a good scholar'. Captain William Locker's career as a Sea Captain fighting the King's enemies on the high seas makes gripping reading and high drama.

Large Hardback Book By Brian Lavery

The ideal guide to Nelson's navy for those with an interest in the workings of a great fleet.

Papback By John Masefield
192 Pages
First published one hundred years after Trafalgar, this book strips away the glamorous veneer that popular perception had bestowed upon the Royal Navy of the Nelsonian era. Instead it reveals a harsh and often brutal regime deemed necessary to preserve discipline under the most testing conditions.

Hardback Book By Peter Goodwin
320 Pages
This exciting volume presents every ship in which Nelson served, in full detail, for the first time. Following a comprehensive background of each vessel, including the actions in which it participated, each ship's construction details and costs will be explored alongside any modifications that were made. The incidents that occurred while Nelson was on board each ship reveal an abridged version of his career and offer both the enthusiast and general reader an insight into the man himself. Fully researched and developed by one of the most well-known and respected Nelson historians, and heavily illustrated in part by Geoff Hunt, jacket artist for the popular Patrick O'Brien series, this will be an invaluable work for both the academic and enthusiast alike.

From the Well I Never Knew That! series.

Do you know...

...Why "letting the cat out of the bag" can leave you "a marked man"?
...Why the Jack and Jill nursery rhyme is really all about sex?
...Why you must "pull your finger out" before "firing a broadside" at someone?
...Why it doesn't hurt a brass monkey when its balls are frozen off by the cold?
All these questions and more answered in this must have book.

Paperback By Tony Barrow
The battle of Trafalgar in 1805 - seamen from North East England, over 500 in total, served in the crews of every ship that fought with Nelson that day. This book offers an insight into the lives and experiences of seamen from Northumberland, Durham, and North Yorkshire who fought and died in the ships of the Navy.

Hardback By Roland Pietsch
Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevenson s Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the thousands of poor boys who went to sea in the eighteenth century to man the ships of the Royal Navy. This groundbreaking new work is a study of the origins, life and culture of the boys of the Georgian navy, not of the upper-class children training to become officers, but of the orphaned, delinquent or just plain adventurous youths whose prospects on land were bleak and miserable. Many had no adult at all taking care of them; others were failed apprentices; many were troublesome youths for whom communities could not provide so that the Navy represented a form of floating workhouse . Some, with restless and roving minds, like Defoe s Robinson Crusoe, saw deep sea life as one of adventure, interspersed with raucous periods ashore drinking, singing and womanising. The author explains how they were recruited; describes the distinctive subculture of the young sailor the dress, hair, tattoos and language and their life and training as servants of captains and officers. More than 5,000 boys were recruited during the Seven Years War alone and without them the Royal Navy could not have fought its wars. This is a fascinating tribute to a forgotten band of sailors

Paperback Book
492 Pages
Trafalgar set the seal on British naval supremacy, the most strategically significant victory in the age of sail. It was also one of the bloodiest and most confused naval conflicts ever known, with English, American, Irish, Spanish and French seamen among choking fumes and in constant peril below and above decks. This is the largest eyewitness collection of the battle, with over 50 first-hand accounts from all those involved.

Hardback By Steven E Maffeo
Steven E. Maffeo has served for over twenty years in the US naval reserve intelligence program and this book is an expansion of his thesis for a master's degree from the Joint Military Intelligence College. "Most Secret and Confidential" starts by surveying the intelligence collection and distribution systems at the national and Admiralty levels, then looking in greater detail at such topics as naval signals, the role of frigates, deception, and the duties of a naval commander (ship's captain and admiral), including being his own intelligence officer. Finally, the book focuses upon three particular case studies: the Battle of Oulo-Aur where the East India Company fleet successful bluffed the French naval squadron commanded by Linois (and used as the historical basis for part of Patrick O'Brian's novel "HMS Surprise"), the Copenhagen expedition of 1801, and the campaign ending in the Battle of the Nile.

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Paperback - 96 Pages
By Brian Lavery
What was it really like to be at sea in the Navy with Nelson? Were that sailors excited about the Battle of Trafalgar, or suffering scurvey? How did life compare between those of a high rank, and those who served them? This book takes you back in time to see what life was really like for these brave sailors at sea.

Hardback
This volume is devoted to the great wars of 1793-1815 and charts the naval event of 1798 to 1801, a period which saw Napoleon's frustration before Acre and which included two of Nelson's greatest Victories, at the Nile and Copenhagen. The book is one of a major series which describes the great maritime events of the pre-photographic era from contemporary paintings, prints, drawings, charts and plans, based on the incomparable collections of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich

Paperback By Barry Unsworth
In the basement of a large Victorian house in London, Charles Cleasby painstakingly re-enacts the great sea battles of his hero, Horatio Nelson. He is also writing a faithful biography of the great man, as a true English hero for an age without idols, a 'bright angel' to Charles's dark shadow. But as Charles's visiting typist, Miss Lily, begins to question Nelson's heroism, and as Charles unearths evidence which tarnishes the image of his icon, his own precarious sense of identity is undermined and the battle raging inside him -- between darkness and light, reality and fantasy -- threatens to overwhelm him.

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Paperback By Valerie Billing
28 Pages
This booklet gives detailed information on the creation, restoration and redisplay of the famous painting The Panorama Of The Battle Of Trafalgar which was painted by William Lionel Wyllie, one of the countries most respected marine artists.

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Paperback - 24 Pages
The Pickle at Trafalgar
HERE OFF CADIZ, it is first light, Sunday 27th October 1805: six days after the battle of Trafalgar the week-long storm is abating and a six-gun topsail schooner, in attendance on Collingwood's flagship, the frigate HMS Euryalus, is signalled to "come within hail".

Thus begins the all-graphic tale of the race back to England of HMS Pickle, and her commanding officer, Lieutenant John Lapenotiere, carrying Collingwood's Trafalgar Despatches.

Vividly re-told, entirely in black and white drawings, the small commemorative book The Pickle at Trafalgar, is researched from original sources including ship's logs, is illustrated by Ron Tiner and introduced by Captain Peter Hore, RN.

The dramatic illustrations and texts vividly recreate the epic dash through storm and near shipwreck from Cadiz to Falmouth, then on, post haste to the Admiralty - a land journey of 271 miles and 21 changes of horses - along a route commemorated in 2005 the bi-centenary, as The Trafalgar Way.

Hardback By D.A.B Ronald
320 Pages
This book tells the stories of the young men who fought in the napoleonic wars, unbelievably some of which were only 12 years old. This book includes many first hand letters and accounts to back this up.

Hardback By Brian Lavery
144 Pages
This concise account charts Nelsons' career from his first Naval posting at the age of 12 and follows his rapid rise through the ranks to his heroic death at The Battle Of Trafalgar.

Hardback By Roy and Lesley Adkins
429 Pages
The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond, often unwillingly, these ordinary men made the Navy invincible through skill, courage and sheer determination. Yet their contribution is frequently overlooked, while the officers became celebrities. JACK TAR gives these forgotten men a voice in an exciting, enthralling, often unexpected and always entertaining picture of what their life was really like during this age of sail. Through personal letters, diaries and other manuscripts, the emotions and experiences of these people are explored, from the dread of press-gangs, shipwreck and disease, to the exhilaration of battle, grog, prize money and prostitutes. JACK TAR is an authoritative and gripping account that will be compulsive reading for anyone wanting to discover the vibrant and sometimes stark realities of this wooden world at war.

Paperback By Roy and Lesley Adkins
430 Pages
This book is about the extraordinary lives of ordinary seamen in Nelsons Navy, it includes letters, diaries and other manuscripts showing how they lived, worked, fought and even died on board the warships.
Their emotions and experiences are explored, from the dread of press gangs and shipwreck to the exhilaration of battle, grog, prize money and prositutes.

Hardback - 144 Pages
By Peter Nelson
A Trafalgar Bicentennial Tribute in 200 Picture Postcards of Britains greatest Naval Hero.

Harback By Dr A.M.E Hills
Nelson throughout his life suffered far more than his fair share of ill health, nevertheless his genetic inheritance suggests that had he not been killed at Trafalgar, he would have lived to a great age. Nelson sustained not two, but four serious wounds in four different naval battles and these and their medical results are all examined properly for the first time, as are his many illnesses. Nelson's death has become surrounded by layers of iconographic inaccuracies which are removed in this book and, as a result, show the incredible bravery exhibited by the dying hero as well as the post mortem events. Nelson was possessed of an exceptional character, genuine charisma and intelligence of genius level and in this book these aspects of his personality are fully discussed. This important new biography is the first ever full study of Nelson's health, character and genius, based on original research where he is examined from a medical point of view, expertly interpreted, giving new insights to lay persons and doctors alike. This book will become required reading for everyone with an interest in the Hero, whether medical, specialist or general reader.

Hardback By Christopher Lee
Trafalgar was a victory that would change the course of the Napoleonic wars and lead to the British Navy ruling the waves for more than a century. In Christopher Lee's book he looks not only at this final and decisive battle but also at the three battles that preceded it. Through these battles he paints a picture of the personalities and the intrigues that were operating, and particularly of the creation of a national hero in Horatio Nelson and his intense rivalry with Napoleon, who is reputed to have kept a bust of Nelson on his desk.
The battle itself was nearly two years in the making, with Nelson scouring the Atlantic for the French fleet. In Lee's book the reader is taken on that journey with Nelson and his men. This is the story of life ashore and at sea, in silken boudoirs and blood-slimed gun decks. It is the biggest story in Britain's maritime history.

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Paperback By Geoffrey Bennett
368 Pages
Captain Bennett sets Nelson's failures at Tenerife and Boulogne against his triumphs at Cape St Vincent, the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar. He does not minimize the consequences of Nelson's passion for Emma Hamilton - the judicial murder of Caracciolo and such a flagrant disregard for orders that he was made to strike his flag.

Paperback By Sir Julian Corbett
320 Pages
In 1910, the revered maritime strategist Sir Julian Stafford Corbett published The Campaign of Trafalgar, with the intent of providing the first "staff account" of the celebrated battle. Beautifully written, and possessed of the historian’s classical precision, Corbett examines the underlying reasoning, both diplomatic and military, that wrought the framework of these famous endeavours.

Paperback Editing By Richard Harding
128 Pages
Like the victory over the Armada and the battle of Britain in 1940, Trafalgar has attained the iconic status of a battle that preserved national independence and demonstrated the particular courage and skills of the nation. 'A great and glorious victory' was how Vice Admiral Collingwood described Nelson's defeat of the enemy navies.In October 2005 an international conference was held at Portsmouth and well-known historians and naval officers from around the world gave a series of papers on aspects of the battle. Containing a wealth of new information they are now form the core of this book. Twelve chapters cover every aspect of the battle but also explore important themes such as the the invasion threat, and the British defences against invasion in the years before 1805. Perhaps the most groundbreaking contribution is from the 'Inshore Squadron', a naval war-gaming group, which produced a timeline that is the most accurate yet available and reveals, amongst other things, the precise nature of the ship-on-ship actions.

Paperback By Christopher Hibbert
472 Pages
In this absorbing book, Christopher Hibbert recounts the story of Nelson's life. Nelson's character is revealed with all its faults and virtues which endeared him to his family, friends and the sailors whose welfare so deeply concerned him.

Original Selling Price £60.00
Hardback By Richard Walker

In this beautiful book Richard Walker explores the iconography of Lord Nelson, a man at once vain and ravaged, glorified and ridiculed, whose exploits and achievements, both public and private, still fascinate today.

This beautifully illustrated book features hundreds of paintings of Horatio Lord Nelson, this book gives a detailed description about each painting and also tells you the current whereabouts of the original paintings.

Hardback By Colin White
268 Pages
"Nelson the Admiral" draws together all the recent research into Nelson's battles in a provocative book, set for publication on the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. The author, Colin White, is one of the leading scholars in the field. He draws on his previous detailed research and writings on Nelson's battles, together with exciting new material that is emerging as a result of the Nelson Letters Project on which he has been recently engaged. He presents a new narrative for each of Nelson's main battles, based on the latest insights; a new analysis of his tactics based on hitherto unpublished material from Nelson's personal order books and battle plans; and a fresh assessment of Nelson's abilities as a naval commander. The end result is an up-to-date analysis of Nelson as a naval commander, showing how the British triumph at Trafalgar was the culmination of years of thought and experimentation on Nelson's part, and on the part of his contemporaries and predecessors.

Paperback By Colin White
304 Pages
The book is a treasure trove of fascinating information - from Hitler's plan to move Nelson's column to Berlin, to the naming of over fifty streets after Nelson and his battles in the Greater London area alone. Complemented by a gazetteer and chronology, together with over one hundred illustrations and eight pages of colour plates, The Nelson Companion is a guide to a fascinating subject.

Paperback By Colin White
164 Pages
This books looks at two key events in Nelson's career: The Battle of Cape St Vincent (14 February 1797), when he played a major role in the British victory over the Spanish Grand Fleet; and the abortive attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife (22-25 July 1797) when he suffered a bloody defeat and lost his right arm.
Based on new research in hitherto untapped contemporary British sources, and on new Spanish research on both battles, this book challenges some aspects of the traditional British accounts and, in particular, claims that Nelson's role in both events has been misrepresented in the past. It goes on to argue that the time has come to review Nelson's whole career in the light of all the new material that is emerging.

Over 50 illustrations and 6 new plans of the battles drawn especially for the book.

Paperback - 28pages

The Pitkin biographical guide to Nelson by Colin White

Was £19.99

Hardback By C.S Forester
232 pages
The celebrated author of the Hornblower series presents the biography of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, the victor of the naval battle of Trafalgar.

Paperback By Peter Warwick
320 Pages
Drawn from a variety of contemporary sources including letters, diaries, newspapers and ships' logs, this work offers an insight into one of the most conclusive Naval Battle in history through the accounts of those who were actually there. It contains accounts from the great military leaders of the time - including Nelson.

Hardback By T.A Heathcote
256 Pages
This is a biographical dictionary of the two flag officers and captains of 27 battleships, four frigates and two minor combatant vessels that were present under Nelson's command at the historic battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. Each officer's family background and naval career will be covered and his and his ship's role in the Battle analysed.

WAS:£15.00

Paperback - A record of the Lily Lambert McCarthy Collection donated to the Royal Naval Museum.

Paperback
This short, brilliant, action-packed biography appeared only eight years after Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar (a scene unforgettably described). It helped transform Nelson into the most popular wartime hero that Britain has ever placed on top of a column.It first gave currency to the proverbial stories of his courage and exhibitionism, from the ‘blind eye’ at Copenhagen, to ‘Kiss me, Hardy’ and the scandal of ‘Beloved Emma’ at Naples. It was written by the romantic poet and historian Robert Southey, a one-time radical who was converted to patriotism by Nelson’s shining (though not ‘untarnished’) example.

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Hardback 192 Pages
Trafalgar was the most famous and strategically significant victory in the age of sail and this volume charts all the major naval events from 1803 to 1805, as well as Nelson's heroic death at the moment of his greatest triumph.

By Caxton Pictorial Histories

Hardback By Roy Adkins
535 Pages
From Nelson and the Nile, To Napoleon at Waterloo, this is a sweeping history of the years of naval warfare that set the balance in power in Europe for the following century.
Encompassing gallant duels between single ships, bloody battles between huge fleets, daring coastal raids, amphibous assaults on naval bases and the subtleties of espionage and naval intelligence, this global conflict truly was 'The War For All Oceans'.

WAS:£20.00
Hardback Book
Tom Pocock's biography of Horatio Nelson is written with obvious authority. It takes us through his life from birth to death, not only with a wealth of new detail but also with a richness of quotation from contemporary letters and papers which dramatically points up the detail.

Hardback By Andrew Lambert
356 Pages
What made Nelson so special? What individual quality led Byron rightly to celebrate Nelson's genius as 'Britannia's God of War'? Andrew Lambert demonstrates how Nelson elevated the business of naval warfare to the level of the sublime. Where his predecessors and opponents saw a particular battle as an end in itself, Nelson - even in the midst of terrifying, close-quarters action - was concerned to exploit the victory he was achieving. Nelson explores the professional, personal, intellectual and practical origins of the man's genius, to understand how the greatest warrior that Britain has ever produced transformed the art of conflict, and enabled his country to survive the challenge of total war and international isolation.

Hardback By David Cannadine
256 Pages
Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson was a colorful and complex character, whose supremely successful naval career quickly attained legendary status. By 1803 he was Britain's paramount hero. Already maimed with the loss of an arm and blind in one eye, he returned to war and spent a further two years at sea before dying at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. In this book, leading historians provide a radical reappraisal of his life and times.

Hardback Book
The autobiography of Captain Alexander Grant 1872 - 1961
Victory in command is the story of a young farmers boy from the Highlands of Scotland who joined the Royal Navy as a boy seaman and rose through the ranks to become the Chief Gunner Of Beattys flagship at The Battle Of Jutland in 1916, where he was promoted for 'gallantry in action'.
He retired in 1926 and was specially recalled to be in command of HMS Victory throughout WWII.

The maritime war against Napoleon did not end with the Battle of Trafalgar, but continued right up to 1815, with even more British ships and sailors deployed after 1805 than before. One key theatre was the Baltic, where the British commander was Admiral Saumarez. He had had a highly successful career as a post-Captain, notably at the two battles of Algeciras as a newly-promoted Rear-Admiral. For five years from 1808 as Commander-in-Chief of a large Baltic fleet, he played a very skilful diplomatic role, combining firmness and restraint, and working with Sweden contrary to the instincts of his superiors in London, even when she declared war. Despite the determined efforts of Denmark's gunboats and privateers, he successfully kept British trade flowing in and out of the Baltic, undermining Napoleon's 'Continental System' - the economic blockade of Britain - and leading to Napoleon's fateful decision to invade Russia in 1812. This book, based on extensive original research in both British and Scandinavian archives and making considerable use of Saumarez' unpublished correspondence, charts the maritime and political history of the war in the Baltic. It illustrates the highly successful, highly esteemed role the Admiral played and looks at the nature and motivation of the man himself revealed in his letters and in the private letters of Count von Rosen, Governor of Gothenburg and chief link between Saumarez and former French Marshal Bernadotte, Crown Prince of Sweden, later to be crowned King Karl XIV Johan