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The Last Armada

✍ Scribed by Des Ekin


Publisher
The O'Brien Press
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
City
Great Britain,Great Britain., Ireland,Ireland., Ireland--Kinsale., Kinsale (Ireland), Spain,Spain.
ISBN
1847175988

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Kinsale, Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601

As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation.

General Juan del Águila has been sprung from a prison cell to command the last great Spanish Armada. Its mission: to seize a bridgehead in Queen Elizabeth's territory and hold it.

Facing him is Charles Blount, a brilliant English strategist whose career is also under a cloud. His affair with a married woman edged him into a treasonous conspiracy – and brought him to within a hair’s breadth of the gallows.

Meanwhile, Irish insurgent Hugh O’Neill knows that this is his final chance to drive the English out of Ireland.

For each man, this is the last throw of the dice. Tomorrow they will be either heroes – or has-beens.

These colourful commanders come alive in this true-life story of courage and...

✦ Subjects


Spain


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