Buy this book on-line HART-DAVIS**, DUFF: : ARMADALONDON.BANTAM PRESS,1988. ISBN 0593012313.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.8vo, 256pp includes sources,an index and profusely illustrated with b/w line drawings plans,maps and colour photographs,colour map endpapers.
1988 is the 400th anniversary of one of the most momentous events in the history of both England and Europe.Philip II of Spain,determined to bring the England of Elizabeth I into his Catholic empire,sent north one of the largest fleets ever assembled,and mustered a huge army of invasion in the Low Countries.
Astrologers had predicted that the year 1588 would bring a world-shattering catastrophe,and the whole of Europe waited to see the outcome of what looked like being an unequal struggle.A few weeks
later,after a running battle up the English Channel,the mighty Armada was scattered,thousands of Spanish seamen and soldiers were dead,and the independence of Protestant England was secured.Produced with the co-operation of the National Maritime Museum,HART-DAVIS describes the background to Spain's threat and England's triumph,the leading figures on both sides, the ships,weapons and tactics,before giving a graphic,hour-by-hour account of the battle itself.
In the tragic aftermath hundreds of English sailors died of disease,and ship- wrecked Spaniards were murdered by the thousand on the coast of Ireland.
Exploding the popular myths that have grown up around this historic naval battle,the author combines original documents with modern research to show where the secret of victory lay: in the fact that while Spain clung to outmoded methods of combat,England,under Howard and Drake,used her race-built galleons to deadly effect in an entirely new concept of war at sea.
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