Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walshingham and the Secret War That Saved England - Hardcover

Hutchinson, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312368224 ISBN 13: 9780312368227

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007

Synopsis

The author of The Last Days of Henry VIII explores the key role of Sir Francis Walsingham, the leading spymaster for Queen Elizabeth I, in uncovering the information that helped preserve England in the face of a network of powerful English Catholic families and the efforts of Catholic Spain to re-impose Catholicism on its Protestant neighbors. 20,000 first printing.

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Review:

An accessible, authoritative account of Francis Walsingham¿s life and work. Written with a sense of the dramatic... The author is very good at evoking the atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia during Elizabeth¿s reign and seems to relish describing the methods of torture at Walsingham¿s disposal and the brutality of the age. It makes Elizabethan statecraft immediate and entertaining. (THE BOOK MAGAZINE)

Robert Hutchinson's lucid and learned volume gives us a vivid portrait of Walsingham... an excellent book. (Frank McLynn INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

Walsingham emerges from these pages as a hero of epic stature. (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

compelling (LITERARY REVIEW)

Hutchinson neatly combines his expert knowledge with an impressive narrative suspense and mordant sense of humour... A darkly informative read. (WATERSTONE'S BOOKS QUARTERLY)

The story told here is intense and compelling. (BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE)

Impeccably researched... the author has constructed what almost amounts to a thriller in this gripping narrative. (GOOD BOOK GUIDE)

full of stimulating detail... vivid glimpses of the world of Elizabethan espionage (Simon Callow THE GUARDIAN)

superb research (THE TABLET)

by shining a light into the murky world he inhabited , the author grants [Walsingham] his proper place in English history. (THIS ENGLAND)

Book Description:

The incredible real life story of the world's first super spy

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312368224
• ISBN 13: 9780312368227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 399