19 títulos para "Pocock Tom"

A Thirst for Glory

Pocock, Tom

Pocock's biography of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith who, along with Nelson, shared the credit for changing the course of history by ending Bonaparte's dream of eastern conquest shows that while Nelson has become the unrivalled national hero, Smith has been almost forgotten.

Remember Nelson

Pocock, Tom

William Hoste (1780-1828) entered the navy in April 1793, under the special care of Nelson, who had a lively affection for him. His career thereafter resembles the naval heroes of fiction such as Horatio Hornblower, Jack Aubrey or Nicholas Ramage. He became lieutenant in 1798, and was appointed comm...

Sailor King

Pocock, Tom

Of all the British monarchs who have claimed that they have ruled the seas, only one, King William IV, has been a truly professional seafarer. Known as the "Sailor King" in his own lifetime, he saw himself as a naval officer who happened to become the sovereign rather than a monarch who had been a n...

Stopping Napoleon

Pocock, Tom

After his defeat by Nelson at Trafalgar, Napoleon knew he could never invade England. Many thought he would try to take over the vast, crumbling Ottoman Empire, return to Egypt and even march on India. So the British concentrated on the Mediterranean: for a decade it became the scene of dangers - re...

The Young Nelson in the Americas

Pocock, Tom

Nelson's immortal victories were won in the seas around Europe but as Tom Pocock shows in this brilliant and original book it was the America and West Indies station that formed him as a sea officer an a fighting commander.

Trafalgar

Pocock, Tom

The battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, in which the British fleet routed French and Spanish ships off the coast of Spain, marked the final defeat of Napoleon's plot to invade Britain - and made Nelson his nation's greatest hero, even though it cost him his life. This book brings together first-...

Travels of a London Schoolboy

Pocock, Tom

Breaking the Chains

Pocock, Tom

With potent echoes of the current War on Terror, this book tells how the leading Great Power of the 19th century organized a coalition to eradicate a deep-rooted aspect of anti-Western policy in Moslem countries. This confrontation between Europe and Islamic North Africa, and eventually the Ottoman...

Captain Marryat

Pocock, Tom

Frederick Marryat was a novelist, for both adults and children, between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. He was also known as Captain Marryat, naval hero of the great war with France, who went on to become a celebrated figure in Dickens' literary circle. A man about town, a journalist, duellist, cou...

Battle for Empire

Pocock, Tom

The first world war was notthat which began in 1914, but the co-called Seven Years War which, in 1756, brought into being global conflict. The new factor which dramatically altered the course of history was British sea power. With the support of the navy, a few thousand men dispossessed the French o...

Fighting General

Pocock, Tom

The public & private campaigns of General Sir Walter Walker. Born into a family with a long tradition of service in India, Walker has until his last, most spectacular appointments, seen all his service east of the Red Sea. Burma, Malaya and Indonesia. As a pioneer of jungle warfare and a brilliantly...

Chelsea Reach

Pocock, Tom

"Here told in fascinating detail is the remarkable story of human and aesthetic relations represented by the friendship between James McNeill Whistler and his devotee, Walter Greaves." Times Literary Supplement