Buy this book on-line WINSTON,GRAHAM: : THE SPANISH ARMADASLONDON.COLLINS,1987. ISBN 0002218429.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,re-issue,1st edn thus.
NMINT/NMINT.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.8vo,288pp includes royal genealogical trees of Spain and England, biblio,notes on illus,index.Profusely illustrated with 32pp of colour plates, 109 b/w illustrations.
For most people the conflict between England and Spain in the 16thC consisted solely of the destruction of the Great Armada in 1588 by Drake, Howard and the English weather.This book places the Armada in its true position as only the most spectacular of many attempts by the Spanish to conquer England and make it Catholic, first by friendship, then by marriage of Philip to Mary and later by battle.A vivid summary is made of the disruptive forces in Europe that, through thirty years, broke down the amity between
Elizabeth and Philip, the two maintained their respect for each other and a facade of peace long after the wish for peace had
gone.Although the clash of the two great fleets provides the central theme, this book emphasizes that the defeat of the First Armada didn't mean the end of the Spanish Navy but rather its beginning on new lines.After 1588, England had only one other real success against Spain, at Cadiz in 1596.Spain launched three more armadas.Re-issued in time for the 400th anniversary of 1588.
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