The history of the Spanish Armada as revealed in contemporary documentsLavishly illustrated 1st edition. In this book, the drama begins in the year 1572. Here we see not only the conflict itself, but those deep & bitter causes for which fighting men on both sides, short of food, drink & ammunition, sought 'the bubble reputation even in the cannon`s mouth' &, when the firing stopped, tasted the sweetness of victory or the sourness of defeat.
