Full name: The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada

Author: Neil Hanson Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781400042944 1400042941

The story of the Spanish Armada is one of the great epics, with a cast of characters as rich and varied as any in history and results that shaped Europe for centuries to come. Neil Hanson -- acclaimed author of The Great Fire of London -- traces the origins of the conflict from the Old World to the New, delineating the Armada campaign in rousing prose. He illuminates the lives of kings and popes, spymasters and assassins, military commanders and common sailors, and the ordinary men and women caught up in this great event when the fate of nations hung in the balance. The Confident Hope of a Miracle is authentic and original history written with the pace and drama of a novel. Similar books: The Reign of Elizabeth by J. B. Black A Short History of England by G. K. Chesterton Empires of the Atlantic World by J. H. Elliott Rivers of Gold by Hugh Thomas The Elizabethans by A. N. Wilson Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset The Domesday Book by Thomas Hinde The Armada by Garrett Mattingly Sex in Elizabethan England by Alan Haynes The Kings and Queens of England by Nicholas Best A Shortened History of England by George Macaulay Trevelyan The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer Empire by Henry Kamen Imperial Spain: 1469-1716 by J. H. Elliott How To Be a Tudor by Ruth Goodman Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer