Armada
By: John Stack
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780007389872; 9780007389865; 9780007389889
Subjects: Tudors, 1485-1603; Great Britain; Sea stories; Fiction; History
Description: Thomas Varian is a captain in Drake's formidable navy, rising quickly through the ranks. But he guards a secret, one for which he would pay with his life if discovered: he is a Catholic. He is about to find his conflicting loyalty to his religion, to his Queen and to his country tested.
Table of contents: title: 1587. England and Spain are at war. English sea captains and adventurers, hungry for the spoils of trade from the Spanish Main, regularly attack the gold-laden galleons of Catholic Spain. They are terriers nipping at the feet of war-horses but their victories disrupt the treasury of Spain, England's greatest threat, and Elizabeth's refusal to rein in her sea-captains further antagonises Philip II. Thomas Varian is a captain in Drake's formidable navy, rising quickly through the ranks. But he guards a secret; title: one for which he would pay with his life if discovered: he is a Catholic. He is about to find his conflicting loyalty to his religion, to his Queen, and to his country tested under the most formidable of circumstances: facing the mighty Armada.