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God’s Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot - Softcover
A thrilling account of treachery, loyalty and martyrdom in Elizabethan England from an exceptional new writer.
As darkness fell on the evening of Friday, 28 October 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young Englishmen landed in secret on a Norfolk beach. They were Jesuit priests. Their aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms: return England to the Catholic Church.
Eighteen years later their mission had been shattered by the actions of a small group of terrorists, the Gunpowder Plotters; they, themselves, had been accused of designing 'that most horrid and hellish conspiracy'; and the future of every Catholic they had come to save depended on the silence of an Oxford joiner, builder of priest-holes, being tortured in the Tower of London.
‘God's Secret Agents’ tells the story of Elizabeth's 'other' England, a country at war with an unseen enemy, a country peopled – according to popular pamphlets and Government proclamations – with potential traitors, fifth-columnists, and assassins. And it tells this story from the perspective of that unseen 'enemy', England's Catholics, a beleaguered, alienated minority, struggling to uphold its faith.
Ultimately ‘God's Secret Agents’ is the story of men who would die for their cause undone by men who would kill for it.
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Alice Hogge was educated at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She lives in London. This is her first book.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0007225687
- ISBN 13 9780007225682
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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Book Description Trade Paperback. 1st Edition. A Near Fine copy. Excellent condition. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 445 pages. Using contemporary documents, the author pieces together a deadly game of cat-and-mouse as Elizabeth and her ministers fought to defend the State and English Catholics struggled to defend their souls. It follows the prists - Gaod's Secret Agents - from their schooling on the Continent, through their perilous return journeys and lonely lives in hiding, to their gruesome deaths on the scaffold. Seller Inventory # 323558
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Edges and endpapers foxed. Ink line on bottom edge ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 400 pages. Seller Inventory # B5673
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