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Lord Cochrane: The real Jack Aubrey?
Thomas Cochrane: The real-life Master and Commander | Peter Moore’s A Dangerous Game
Naval hero. Political radical. Convicted fraudster. Thomas Cochrane’s life makes the fiction he inspired look almost tame.
Antonia Senior and Roger Moorhouse discuss Peter Moore’s A Dangerous Game, a biography of one of Britain’s most extraordinary—and troublesome—naval commanders. From the audacious capture of a vastly superior Spanish warship to the stock-market scandal that destroyed his career, and his reinvention fighting for South American independence, this is history with all the adventure of a novel…
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