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Tim Clayton & Phil Craig Trafalgar: The Men, the Battle, the Storm 2 cassettes (abridged)

Reader: Bill Bingham, Charles Collingwood & Stephen Kynman

Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte dominated Europe and threatenedBritain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy and the alreadylegendary Admiral Horatio Nelson.
On 21 October 1805, a massive naval battleoff the coast of Spain decided mastery of the seas. Then, over the followingdays and nights, the battleships and their exhausted crews endured a gale ofawesome fury. As Captain Charles Tyler wrote to his wife Margaret, 'the windblew a perfect storm'.
The authors of the bestselling FINEST HOUR tell thisstory not only through the diaries, letters and memoirs of the men who wrestledwith the enemy and the elements, but also through the eyes of their wives andchildren. These dramatic personal accounts are supported by extensive originalresearch from logs, muster books and personal files discovered in France, Spainand Britain.
Glimpses of intriguing individuals enrich the narrative: JeanneCaunant, wife of a Flemish 'maintopman'; Louis Infernet, a hard-drinking sailorwho rose to captain thanks to the French Revolution; James Martin, a seaman fromColchester who wrote about the battle; Dioniso Galiano, Spanish officer andexplorer of the Ne World, are just a few. The demands of life at sea - and whatthis mix of people had suffered and achieved in the turbulent years that led upto the battle - make compelling reading.
Whether you are already familiarwith this period of history or are coming to it for the first time, TRAFALGAR isa book that will enthral as it illuminates an event whose repercussions stillecho today.

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