It will certainly make some people feel embarrassed as it returns to historical memory events that should not be concealed.Īntonio Luis Gómez Beltrán, author of La Invencible y su leyenda negra (2013) About the Author:īook Description Hardcover. Using primary sources Gorrochategui Santos constructs and describes the operations, the rifts and the battles with accuracy in a format which is engaging and coherent. José Cervera Pery, Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of History, SpainĮssential reading for those who love history or who are professionally engaged in it. This engaging and easy-to-read work describes very compellingly a decisive episode of the period. That is why it was an event of such importance. As the author states in his illuminating epilogue, the success of the English expedition would have made it possible for the English and the Dutch to gain access to the Spanish crown's territories in the Americas, but its failure enabled Spain to retain them. Hiram Morgan, Senior Lecturer, University College Cork, IrelandĪ profound and detailed study of enormous merit and scope about an historic event that has given rise to much controversy. It provides an important rebalancing of what proved a long war of attrition.
Gorrochategui's marvellous account of their counter-armada the following year to destroy the Spanish threat and liberate Portugal reveals an equal if not bigger disaster. It turns out that the famous Armada of 1588 was more propaganda achievement than decisive English victory. At last the real history of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1604.
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