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By 1809 the Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson's Navy and the French fleet. At stake was Britain's commercial lifeline to India - and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. Storm and Conquest brings together the terrifying ordeal of men, women and children caught at sea in hurricanes, and those who survived to drive the French from the Eastern Seas. All shared a need to prove themselves - to make a career, or a fortune, or a marriage - in places which could be at once magnificent and terrifying.
The drama of Stephen Taylor's masterful narrative is irresistible; his true stories more than a match for the novels of Patrick O'Brian. And he provides a meticulously researched, searing portrait of the British captains whose zeal and ambition was such that they would rather die than capitulate.
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"For sheer excitement, what most gripped me was Storm and Conquest ... as thrilling as anything by Patrick O'Brian." -- Jeremy Paxman, Books of the Year, Observer
"Taylor has written a ferociously good book ... an incredible tale." -- Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm
"A magnificent book ... The writing has all the nautical salt and pungency of a Patrick O'Brian novel." -- Literary Review
"A triumph... a ripping yarn founded on original research ... popular maritime history at its very best." -- Huw Bowen, Guardian
"Taylor is a great man for storms and desperate enterprises ... in this irresistible volume he demonstrates his steady scholarship too."
-- Jan Morris, The Times
A magnificent book ... has all the nautical salt and pungency of a Patrick O'Brien novel. -- Literary Review
A stunning hodge-podge of conflicts, character studies, adventures and dubious goingson in the East ... irrisistible.
-- Jan Morris, The Times
A triumph, a brilliant evocation ... this is the richest of works: a ripping yarn founded on original research. -- Guardian
An admirably well-researched and well-written account ... Taylor tells this remarkable tale with [] infectious zeal.
-- Daily Telegraph
For sheer excitement, what gripped me most is Storm and Conquest ... as thrilling as anything by Patrick O'Brien. -- Jeremy Paxman, Books of the Year, Observer
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"Taylor has written a ferociously good book ... an incredible tale." -- Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm
"A magnificent book ... The writing has all the nautical salt and pungency of a Patrick O'Brian novel." -- Literary Review
"A triumph... a ripping yarn founded on original research ... popular maritime history at its very best." -- Huw Bowen, Guardian
"Taylor is a great man for storms and desperate enterprises ... in this irresistible volume he demonstrates his steady scholarship too."
-- Jan Morris, The Times
A magnificent book ... has all the nautical salt and pungency of a Patrick O'Brien novel. -- Literary Review
A stunning hodge-podge of conflicts, character studies, adventures and dubious goingson in the East ... irrisistible.
-- Jan Morris, The Times
A triumph, a brilliant evocation ... this is the richest of works: a ripping yarn founded on original research. -- Guardian
An admirably well-researched and well-written account ... Taylor tells this remarkable tale with [] infectious zeal.
-- Daily Telegraph
For sheer excitement, what gripped me most is Storm and Conquest ... as thrilling as anything by Patrick O'Brien. -- Jeremy Paxman, Books of the Year, Observer
Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1808-10 by Stephen Taylor is a gripping and epic account of the infamous Battle for Mauritius in which the British fleet sailed close to catastrophe in French waters.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2007
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- ISBN 13 9780571224654
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