Harper Perennial, August 2005. Paper Back. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "This scrupulously elegant account of the creation of what four centuries of history has confirmed is the finest English-language work of all time, is entirely true to its subject: Adam Nicolson's lapidary prose is masterly..... More
Harper Perennial, August 2006. Paper Back. "Strikingly original. . . . Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar." --The Economist Adam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism..... More
Henry Holt and Co., November 2014. Hardcover. Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt...and his excitement is contagious.--James Wood, The New Yorker Adam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the..... More
