Mattingly, Garrett, — The Armada.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1959. First Printing. VG hb in G dj. A climactic event in the birth of modern Europe her climactic story told in vivid detail from original sources as a part. of the larger drama of diplomacy in this age of Elizabeth. The curtain rises on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots which could not be resolved until the ships of the Catholic King of Spain had been scattered in the North Sea, His French Ally the Duke of Guise murdered at Blois and Engliand's Elizabeth secured on her throne Underlining, edge wear to the dustjacket.