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Trafalgar Booklist

 

Fiction (all genres) and Nonfiction about the Battle of Trafalgar

 

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram

Fiction

• Sharpe's Trafalgar
  Author: Cornwell, Bernard
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25 ISBN: 0060194251 Date: 2001
  PW LJ
  This number one international bestseller sends Richard Sharpe into a breathtaking sea chase and a savage battle off Cape Trafalgar in 1805.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars | Sea Stories
  Updated 4/20/01
• Hornblower During the Crisis
  Author: Forester, C.S.
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 17.95 ISBN: 0316289159 Date: 1967
  Updated 10.11.05
• Ramage at Trafalgar
  Author: Pope, Dudley
  Publisher: McBooks $ 14.95 ISBN: 1590130227 Date: 2002
  Ramage is ordered to join Nelson's fleet blaockading the combined French and Spainish navies in the port of Cadiz. Nelson doesn't plan to merely blockade the enemy's fleet. He intends to confront it head-on in teh biggest naval battle the world has ever seen...
  Updated 10.11.05
• Decision at Trafalgar
  Author: Woodman, Richard
  Publisher: Walker $ 16.95 ISBN: 0802709931 Date: 1987
  Renowned historian and novelist Dudley Pope creates an intimate portrait of the life in the Royal Navy during its finest hour.
  Updated 10.11.05

Nonfiction

• Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World
  Author: Adkins, Roy
  Publisher: Viking $ 27.95 ISBN: 0670034487 Date: 2005
  LJ PW
  On the Battle of Trafalgar's 200th anniversary, Adkins offers a brutally vivid, gunport-level account of the British victory that changed the world.
  Updated 8.24.05
• Trafalgar: Countdown to Battle
  Author: Schom, Alan
  Publisher: Atheneum $ 27.50 ISBN: 0689120559 Date: 1990
  Kirkus
  Alan Schom's Trafalgar is not merely an account of the legendary naval victory of Lord Nelson over the Napoleonic fleet in 1805. Rather, it is the whole, richly dramatic story of this episode in the history of English and French enmity beginning with Napoleon's coronation in 1803.
  Updated 10.11.05