Publisher's Synopsis
Two hundred years ago, Napoleon dominated Europe and threatened Britain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy and the already legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson. On 21 October 1805 a massive naval battle off Cape Trafalgar on the coast of Spain decided mastery of the seas. Over the following days and nights, the battleships and their exhausted crews endured a gale of awesome fury. Having fought in the most confused and bloody naval conflict that any had known, English, American, Spanish and French seamen then had to endure a terrifying combination of weather and circumstances. The demands of life at sea - and what this extraordinary mix of people had suffered and achieved in the turbulent years that led up to the battle - make compelling reading.
