Buy this book on-line ORDE, DENIS: : In the Shadow of Nelson - The Life of Admiral Lord CollingwoodUK.BARNSLEY,S. YORKS.PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD.,2008. ISBN 9781844157822.
UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,with colour painting detail (battle of Cape St. Vincent,by Robert Dodd) and also a superimposed,subject's colour portrait painting (by Howard HenrY) to both front+ spine,with b/w lettering to front and white lettering to spine,rear panel with contemporary battle fleet's map illustration; with negligible shelf-wear, creasing to edges or corners,tiniest of snicks to top,front edge but no other nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards/covers with bright,crisp,stamped, gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edm,v-xpp+1-289pp [paginated] includes maps+diagrams list/table,a preface+acknowledgements,13 chapters,16pp contemporary 18thC b/w illustration reproductions in 1 block,between pp146/7, notes,a bibliography,and an index,plus [unpaginated] a blank,half-title+title pages,and a contents list/table.
See also my book ID rja906920 for another,but different and earlier biography of same subject,but by Max Adams in 2005 (then the first such,in over 40 years).
Vice Admiral Cuthbert (Cuddy) Collingwood's reputation was hard won in battles such as Cape St. Vincent (1797) and The Glorious First of June (1794). His career had to survive reverses that might well of been fatal to others less competent.He was court-martialled in 1777 by a commander for whom he had no respect, only to be acquitted.
Although ten years older than Horatio Nelson,circumstances dictated that these two rising stars' careers were so closely linked for over 30 years and,more than that,they were close friends and confidantes.The relationship was all the stranger as their temperaments greatly differed.Collingwood was as reserved, austere and shy as Nelson was warm and extrovert.Indeed Collingwood was a major influence on the younger man and it was only at Trafalgar that Nelson was the superior officer.
Collingwood's role during and after that historic battle was pivotal.He led the lee column in The Royal Sovereign and Nelson is recorded as saying 'See how that noble fellow Collingwood takes his ship into action.How I envy him'.On Nelson's demise, he assumed command of the Fleet and wrote the famous Trafalgar Despatch that carried the first news of the historic victory and its cost back to the Nation.He later became Commander in Chief Mediterranean Fleet but was never to return home,dying at sea in 1810.Fittingly he was buried beside Nelson in St Paul's Cathedral.
Remarkably,this major naval figure has been the subject of very little authoritative biography in the past two hundred years.Thanks to the research and literary skills of Denis Orde,this omission is redressed in fine style by 'In the Shadow of Nelson.'
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