Buy this book on-line MARTIN,COLIN & PARKER,GEOFFREY: : THE SPANISH ARMADALONDON.HAMISH HAMILTON,1988. ISBN 0241121256.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.8vo,296pp
includes sources notes and references, chronology,an index,b/w map eps and profusely illustrated with 100+ b/w illus,and 50 colour photographs.Green cloth bds,gilt letters to spine/backstrip,
with Spanish Royal seal.
In the late summer of 1588, Philip II's Armada of 130 ships, having failed to invade England, disappeared into the northern sea.But what was the reality of the Spanish threat, and why did it fail? 400 years later, this book answers these questions, drawing on a wealth of new evidence.PARKER has found and analysed a huge quantity of previously unstudied material in the great archives of Spain and the Netherlands, and this information has been dramatically complemented and augmented by the discoveries from Armada wrecks,three of which have been excavated underwater by Colin MARTIN.
Using these unique first-hand sources, on which they had been working together since 1973,the two authors have put together the pieces of the puzzle in a way never before possible.The Spanish Armada is at last fully explained, and some unexpected conclusions reached.In the process several long-standing myths are laid to rest.
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