Nelson's Navy in Fiction and Film

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Nelson's Navy in Fiction and Film is written by Sue Parrill and published by McFarland. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0786458038 (ISBN 10) and 9780786458035 (ISBN 13).

This book provides summaries and analyses of more than 250 novels and nearly 30 films and examines the extent to which they accurately reflect the history, mores and manners of the period--and the extent to which they reveal the ideas and attitudes of their authors and of the periods in which they were written. Particular emphasis is placed on the nature and importance of the war at sea for the British and on the role of famous naval officers such as Nelson, Pellew, Duncan, Smith and Cochrane in the defeat of Napoleon.