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(0)Robert Hutchinson
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Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2019
Description
The Tudors retained only a precarious grip on the crown of England, founded on a title that was both tenuous and legally flimsy. This left them preoccupied by two major obsessions: the necessity for a crop of lusty male heirs to continue their bloodline, and the elimination of threats from those who had strong, if not superior, claims to the throne than them. None was cursed more by this rampant insecurity than Henry VIII. The king embodied not only...
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2013
Description
After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe - not least Spain. In October 1585 King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence war between the two countries, culminating in the dramatic sea battles of 1588. Robert Hutchinson's tautly written book examines this battle for intelligence,...
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Describing the final years of the rule of Henry VIII, this book explores how one of England's mightiest rulers became a reclusive, bloated old man, with a number of challengers to the throne who were ready to go to extreme lengths in order to succeed him.
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Francis Walsingham was the first 'spymaster' in the modern sense. His methods anticipated those of MI5 and MI6 and even those of the KGB. His rise and fall is a Tudor epic, vividly narrated by a historian with unique access to the surviving documentary evidence.