{"product_id":"9780060879341","title":"Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar","description":"In \u003ci\u003eSeize the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed \u003ci\u003eGod's Secretaries\u003c\/i\u003e, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero? And daring? Why did the cult of the hero flower in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a way it hadn't for two hundred years? Was the figure of Nelson -- intemperate, charming, theatrical, anxious, impetuous, considerate, indifferent to death and danger, inspirational to those around him, and, above all, fixed on attack and victory -- an aberration in Enlightenment England? Or was the greatest of all English military heroes simply the product of his time, \"the conjuror of violence\" that England, at some level, deeply needed?","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47095705010416,"sku":"9780060879341","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060879341_p0.jpg?v=1763619886","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060879341","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}