Nelson: The Man and the Legend

"The real Nelson was a man whose mind was, in his own words, fixed as fate, whose instinct was not just to defeat the enemy but to annihilate him. At the height of his fame he was half unhinged, a generous man who wanted his wife dead, besotted with Emma Hamilton but jealously unsure of her, at odds with his honourable father whose funeral he did not attend, at law with his old mentor Earl St Vincent over prize money, and damning the Lords of the Admiralty as a set of beasts. Based almost entirely upon original letters and documents and with full apparatus, Terry Coleman's fascinating new biography gives us a penetrating and original picture of an unfamiliar Nelson."--BOOK JACKET.