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| | The Great Gamble: Nelson at Copenhagen by Dudley Pope |
 | | Earlier, inspired by Paul I of Russia, the northern powers began to form an armed coalition which could become a serious threat to British interests, and the arrival of a British fleet in the Baltic was in answer to this perceived threat. |
 | | Dudley Pope looks at what miscalculations, what stupidities, what order of polities combined to put Nelson second-in-command to a man over sixty, a man with no real knowledge of naval warfare, a man who, at the height of battle, when England so obviously had the upper hand, hoisted the signal for Nelson to retreat. |
 | | Dudley Pope's telling of this story, first published in 1972, is brilliantly researched and utterly compelling and undoubtedly the best book with which to celebrate the bicentenary in April 2001. |
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