Sharpe's Trafalgar by Bernard Cornwell

A gritty historical adventure that follows a young soldier pressed into service aboard a British warship in 1805, where class prejudice and cramped, brutal life at sea test his mettle; as the fleet sails toward the great engagement off the Spanish coast, he must navigate shipboard politics, thwart a dangerous enemy plot, and prove his courage amid the smoke, splintering timbers and chaos of battle, earning hard-won respect and shaping his future as a fighting man.

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