num_pages: 400
description: Presenting the contradictions of heroism as embodied by Horatio Nelson and as tested by the Battle of Trafalgar Adam Nicolson looks at the variety of qualities - ruthlessness bravery kindness cruelty - that combined in both Nelson and his troops to carry that fateful day.
language: English
title: Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero
publisher: Harper Perennial