Seize the Fire
Subtitle: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: August 9, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780060753610
Subjects: Military Operations; Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805; Military - Napoleonic Wars; Naval History - Modern; History; History - Military / War; Military; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Military - Naval; History / Military / Naval; Heroes; Europe - Great Britain - General; Great Britain
First sentence: At 5.50 on the morning of 21 October 1805, just as dawn was coming up, the look-outs high on the mainmasts of the British fleet spied the enemy, about twelve miles away downwind.