In pursuit of fame Munro Price assesses a new biography which aims to restore the heroic image that Nelson so relentlessly crafted for himself

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: March 30, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Nelson: Love and Fame

by Edgar Vincent

Yale, pounds 25, 640 pp

pounds 25 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

THE BICENTENARY of Trafalgar is still two years away, but the Nelson biographers are already scrubbing their decks and running out their guns before bearing down in line of battle on the unwary reader. At the head of the fleet is Edgar Vincent with Nelson: Love and Fame, a stately 640-page literary battleship, bristling with truly terrifying military and biographical detail.

This armament has a clear purpose: to restore the heroic image that Nelson so carefully crafted for himself. The ...

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