Youth, Heroism and War Propaganda : Britain and the Young Maritime Hero, 1, Hardcover by Ronald, D. A. B., ISBN 1472530829, ISBN-13 9781472530820, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

Ronald investigates the emergence of the young hero as a new figure in the maritime literature beginning diffusely in the aftermath of the 1745 Rebellion but gradually gathering substance and culminating as the centerpiece of a campaign of concerted war propaganda in the years immediately preceding and succeeding the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The main vehicles for the figure were public prints, he says, tri-weekly and weekly newspapers and monthly and quarterly periodicals read in homes, coffee houses, and circulating libraries. His topics include the young midshipman in naval biography 1745-98, young heroes in the Chronicle's biographical memoirs 1, the "sea-lover" in nautical verse 1745-98, distressed objects and little tyrants in naval polemic, and political youth 1815-20. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()