The Armada

Prof. Garrett Mattingly

• Publisher: Papamoa Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781787206236
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

WINNER OF THE SPECIAL CITATION FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE COMMITTEE
In 1588, the English fleet defeated the mighty Spanish Armada in the sea battle that author Garrett Mattingly refers to as "the focus of the first great international crisis in modern history."
Winner of 1960 Pulitzer Prize and a model history as important to the scholar as it is engrossing for the general reader, Mattingly's 1959 book The Armada is the definitive story of that battle and its meaning.
"There is no other historian in the English speaking world who could give us a bird's-eye view of the scene from so many aspects. With his linguistic gifts and cultural sensibilities, Mattingly tells the story not merely from the English or Spanish viewpoints as hitherto; he follows all the contributory streams that ran toward the decisive events in the English Channel in that historic twelve-month...The Armada is a work of art as well as of scholarship...It is so skillfully constructed, it reads like a novel—but an accomplished novel, by one of the best writers."—New York Times
"In a splendidly entertaining book Professor Mattingly, calling up the resources of a lifetime of scholarship,...presents the true story in the framework of European history and, by a masterly arrangement of his chapters, brings out with clarity the interweaving of diplomacy, strategy, and politics."—Saturday Review

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Dedication
• Preface
• Maps
• About the Calendar
• About Ships and Their Guns
• I - Curtain Raiser
• II - Simplicity of a City
• III - Perplexity of a Queen
• IV - The End of a Gay Season
• V - Plans of Operations
• VI - The Bitter Bread
• X - “No Matter of Substance”
• XI - Barrel Staves and Treasure
• XII - An Arm Is Cut Off
• XIII - The Happy Day
• XIV - The Uses of Victory
• XV - The Ominous Year
• XVI - The Company of These Noble Ships
• XVII - “In the Hope of a Miracle”
• XVIII - The Day of the Barricades, I
• XIX - The Day of the Barricades, II
• XX - The Invincible Sets Sail
• XXI - “The Advantage of Time and Place”
• XXII - Entrance to the Arena
• XXIII - First Blood
• XXIV - “A Terrible Value of Great Shot”
• XXV - In Formidable Order
• XXVI - The Hellburners
• XXVII - The Order Broken
• XXVIII - The Tardy Miracle
• XXIX - “Myself Your General”
• XXX - Drake Is Captured!
• XXXI - The Long Road Home
• XXXII - End of a Tall Man
• XXXIII - The Winds of God
• XXXIV - Not a Whit Dismayed
• Epilogue
• Notes
• REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER