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Nicholas Best

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Nicholas Best grew up in Kenya and was educated there, in England and at Trinity College, Dublin. He served in the Grenadier Guards and worked as a journalist in London before becoming a full time author.
His first novel ('As a satire on military bigotry and shambling officialdom, Where were you at Waterloo? is in places as sharp as Waugh and sometimes better' - Times Literary Supplement) was written at Harvard. His second, Tennis and the Masai ('The funniest book of the year - Daily Telegraph) was serialized on BBC Radio 4.
He has since written many other books, including Happy Valley: the Story of the English in Kenya, The Greatest Day in History, about the Armistice of 1918, and Five Days that shocked the World, about the end of the Sec ...more

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Average rating: 4.24 · 4,659 ratings · 386 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors

	Trafalgar 4.50 avg rating — 917 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II 4.15 avg rating — 772 ratings — published 2012 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 683 ratings — published 1979 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FIVE DAYS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II 4.40 avg rating — 601 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SEVEN DAYS OF INFAMY accounts of Pearl Harbor from those who watched it unfold 4.49 avg rating — 338 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Five Days That Shocked the World : Eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II 4.42 avg rating — 291 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Greatest Day in History: How, on the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month, the First World War Finally Came to an End 3.97 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 2008 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War really ended 4.31 avg rating — 167 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tennis and the Masai 3.77 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1987 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kings and Queens of England 3.98 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Nelson was due for a rest. He was forty-six years old, blind in one eye, going blind in the other. He had lost an arm in battle and endured recurring pain in his side from an old stomach wound. His hernia produced a lump the size of his fist every time he coughed. He suffered headaches from a head wound and was prone to regular bouts of fever, toothache and depression. For a man who had been in action 120 times by the age of thirty-nine, Nelson was bearing up well, but he was long overdue for an honourable retirement. It was only the war that kept him at sea. But there was no rest for Nelson, or anyone else, for that matter. They had all been at sea far too long. Officers and men alike were dreadfully”
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“counselled vehemently against the flat-bottomed barges,”
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The History Book ...: * THE TRAFALGAR CAMPAIGN	19	232	Oct 03, 2016 11:41PM
Bright Young Things: Happy Valley & the Death of the Earl of Erroll (Moderator's choice May/June 2017)	63	28	Jul 25, 2017 10:29AM
The History Book ...: * NELSON AND THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR	92	436	Apr 01, 2018 11:05PM
The History Book ...: KENYA	26	358	Apr 02, 2018 09:11AM
The History Book ...: * ARMISTICE WITH GERMANY (COMPIEGNE)	18	230	Apr 15, 2018 11:03PM
The Perks Of Bein...: Team Neptune	1292	423	May 03, 2018 04:50AM
Reading the 20th ...: Group Read -> November 2018 -> Nomination thread (A book about World War One won by A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry)	70	27	Sep 09, 2018 06:09AM
Around the Year i...: Trafalgar, by Nicholas Best	1	7	Jan 20, 2019 04:33PM

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