NELSON, Horatio, Viscount Nelson - MAHAN, Alfred Thayer.

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The Life of Nelson. First British edition, made up from the American sheets with a cancel title page. This masterly biography "retains an authority that makes it worth reading" (Knight). Mahan was "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century" (Keegan, p. 242), whose influence was a major factor in the outbreak of the late 19th-century naval arms race.The first American edition was published in the same year.

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