Full name: Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero

Author: Adam Nicolson Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

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. Similar books: Sea Room by Adam Nicolson Seize the Fire by Adam Nicolson Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand How Not to Die by Michael Greger The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis Marley & Me by John Grogan Being Mortal by Atul Gawande Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom What If? by Randall Munroe Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer John Adams by David McCullough In Cold Blood by Truman Capote