Cape Trafalgar

8 hrs. 30 min.

Language Russian

Author Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Narrator Oleg Isaev

Description

The Battle of Trafalgar was the largest naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars between the English and the Franco-Spanish fleets, which took place on October 21, 1805, off Cape Trafalgar. The battle lasted 12 hours and involved 33 allied ships and 27 British ships under the command of the famous Admiral Horatio Nelson. The British captured and destroyed 18 enemy ships. The allies also lost about 7,000 men—killed, wounded, and captured—while the British lost about 1,500.
That’s what an encyclopedia says. But the well-known Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte, in his historical-adventure novel “Cape Trafalgar” (Spanish: Cabo Trafalgar), describes a more detailed and convincing picture of what truly happened that autumn day.
So, the wet deck of the “Encaurten” sways underfoot from a light swell, ruffling the surface of the sea some thirty miles south-east of Cadiz. Lieutenant Louis Kelennek is about to appear on pages of history textbooks, but he himself does not know it yet. Otherwise, his first words spoken at dawn on 29 Vendémiaire, Year XIV, would have been different…