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UK: Chatham Publishing, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6.25" x 9.5. H/B 579 pages, condition is very good, minor edge wear to the DJ. On 2nd April, 1801, the Royal Navy anchored a few hundred yards off the Copenhagen waterfront and engaged the Danes in a brief but bloody battle. Earlier, inspired by Paul I of Russia, the northern powers had begun to form an armed coalition which could have become a serious threat to British interests; the arrival of a British fleet in the Baltic and the subsequent defeat of the Danes was in answer to that perceived threat. To Nelson, the battle of Copenhagen was more than a great gamble: it was unnecessary. He had believed in a direct attack on the Russian fleet, but, failing that, he convinced Sir Hyde Parker, to whom he was second-in-command, that the best initial step would be an attack on the Danish fleet at Copenhagen. This he was allowed to lead. Dudley Pope looks at what miscalculations, what stupidities, what order of politics combined to put Nelson second-in-command to a man over sixty, a man with no real knowledge of naval warfare, a man who, at the height of battle, when the Royal Navy so obviously had the upper hand, hoisted the signal for Nelson to retreat. Nelson famously disregarded the order for, as he said, he had a right to be sometimes blind, being sightless in one eye. But The Great Gamble is much more than a full-blooded account of one of the greatest sea battles of all time. With his scrupulous eye for detail and unlimited access to both British and Danish sources, Pope throws such fascinating light on the background, the intrigues and the ramifications of the battle that the work can be read as a political, diplomatic, naval and social history of the early years of the Napoleonic wars. But at the heart lies Nelson, triumphant after the Nile, once again delivering for his country a great victory at sea. Dudley Pope's telling of this story, first published in 1972, is brilliantly researched and utterly compelling - it is undoubtedly the best book with which to celebrate the bicentenary in April 2001.
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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. On 2nd April, 1801, the Royal Navy anchored a few hundred yards off the Copenhagen waterfront and engaged the Danes in a brief but bloody battle. This book gives an account of that battle, as well as its background, its intrigues and its ramifications.Pope's telling of this story is brilliantly researched and utterly compelling 579p. illus map. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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