Cape Trafalgar. Arturo Perevo-Reverte

The Trafalgar battle is the largest naval battle of the Napoleonic wars between the British and the Spanish -French coalition. It took place on October 21, 1805 at Cape Trafalgar. The battle lasted 12 hours, the famous Admiral Nelson commanded the British. The British captured and destroyed 18 out of 33 enemy ships. The allies also lost about 7,000 fighters, while the British are only one and a half thousand. Such facts give us textbooks. But Arturo Perevo-Reverte draws a more detailed and convincing picture of what actually happened on that autumn day. So, the wet deck of “Ensusten” swaying underfoot from a light swell, which worries the sea surface thirty miles to the zyuid-ost from Cadis. Lieutenant Captain Louis Kelennek is about to get to the pages of history textbooks, but he himself does not yet know about it. And not the first words that he said at dawn of the 29th Vandemier of the XIV year would be different...