Evening Standard - London, October 2nd, 2000
COCHRANE: The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain by Robert Harvey (Constable, 16.99)
NAVAL WARFARE IN THE AGE OF SAIL: War at Sea 1756-1815 by Bernard Ireland (HarperCollins, 29.99)
ROBERT Harvey is the latest biographer to be seduced by the comet- like figure of Thomas Cochrane, perhaps the most brilliant commander any navy has ever known, whose exploits have been appropriated in fiction by Marryat's Captain Savage, C S Forester's Horatio Hornblower, and, most recently, Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey.
Entering the Navy in 1793 as a 17-year-old midshipman, in 1800 Cochrane was given com...
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