{"product_id":"2026200013690-secondhand-nelson","title":"Nelson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in British history command the sea of myth and reverence that surrounds Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, and Carola Oman's magisterial biography cuts through legend to present the man in full — his genius, his passions, his contradictions, and his extraordinary rise from a Norfolk parson's son to the immortal hero of Trafalgar. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, this definitive life chronicles Nelson's most celebrated naval campaigns, his scandalous love affair with Lady Hamilton, and the political intrigues that shadowed his every triumph, rendering an intimate and unflinching portrait of one of history's most captivating commanders.\n\nOman writes with the precision of a scholar and the narrative drive of a storyteller, drawing on a wealth of primary sources to illuminate the private agonies and public glories that defined Nelson's short but incandescent life. Her work stands as one of the great biographical achievements of the twentieth century, lauded for its scrupulous research and its refusal to reduce its subject to mere iconography. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Nelson remains the biography against which all subsequent accounts of the admiral are measured — leaving the reader to wonder how one mortal life could contain so much fire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160924168411,"sku":"2026200013690-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/dfd0aa73-6e03-4e9d-a27c-8cc412dd56fa.png?v=1787188406","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013690-secondhand-nelson","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}