Men of Honour - Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero

Hardcover with Dust Jacket, by Adam Nicolson, published by Harper Collins, London,  2005. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 341 pages, two blocs of colour illustration and illustrated endpapers. 

Book Condition: Very Good, ? signed 'B/K' on fly-leaf. Dust Jacket: Good.

The author takes the battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic.  

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