LINKS between Hereford and the battle of Trafalgar are included in yet another book to mark the 200th anniversary of one of the shortest but best remembered of naval victories.
The best type of reporting and history comes not from journalists or historians but from the eye witness accounts. Voices from the Battle of Trafalgar, by Peter Warwick, tells the story through the notes and letters of serving sailors and other people involved.
One of the voices was the Rev John Greenly, from Hereford, Chaplain to the Revenge - one of the ships in Nelson's fleet. Writing to his father, he reports, "dreadful carnage" and his own narrow escape, having a 42lb cannon ball miss him by just six inches.
Voices from the Battle of Trafalgar is published by David and Charles, priced £19.99.
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