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  <title><![CDATA[The Armada]]></title>
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  <default_description>The Armada is the definitive story of the English fleet's infamous defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, one of the most spectacular events of the sixteenth century.  The esteemed and critically acclaimed historian Garrett Mattingly explores all dimensions of the naval campaign, which captured the attention of the European world and played a deciding role in the settlement of the New World.  The Armada is sure to appeal to the scholar and amateur historian alike.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1974</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Garrett Mattingly]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am an aspiring narcoleptic or perhaps just experiencing hypnagogic hallucinations (thank you Wikipedia) though I believe this book caused most of my daytime drowsiness over the last week. for what it is worth, I always wanted to keep reading when I woke up. THE SPANISH LOST!!!!! that came way out ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25033279">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent and very detailed review of European history beginning with the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots and continuing through the ultimate demise of the Spanish Armada.  A perhaps overlooked aspect of the outcome is the fact that the victory likely resulted in the continuing independence of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57918098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The English had smaller faster ships and better long range guns. The Spanish were defeated before they began to fight, They pulled into port with their tails between their legs. This is where Sir Francis Drake made his name.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Had to read this for my History of Spain of class in college.  So glad I did--really, an outstanding book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(added to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://amazon.com">amazon.com</a> &quot;Curious About These&quot; list, c. March 2007.)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fucking brilliant! Written in a day when outstanding Historians were also occasionally excellent and entertaining Writers, and Garrett Mattingly was certainly both. Unusual for a history tome in that it is riveting enough to be difficult to put down, and is written as a series of vignettes laying ou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5014011">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Published, what, 50 years ago? and still the best, you-are-there account ever written of the greatest challenge to Elizabeth I's reign.  It begins with Drake sailing into Cadiz to singe the beard of Philip of Spain, and includes Elizabeth's speech at Tilbury, &quot;Though I have the body of a weak a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35030140">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite history book to date. Mattingly has that rare gift of being an historian who can truly bring his characters and the action surrounding them to life. His grasp of the historical facts and his ability to compose in a literary fashion combine to create a world that is instantly alive for th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7946711">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Armada, or how bad planning and bad luck saved England from Invasion.<br/><br/>This is a wonderful and detailed book that reads like a novel, but gives a very clear picture of a pivitol moment in history.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Historical perspective of Europe in the late 1500's, the rise of Queen Elizabeth and church politics of the time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very enjoyable account of the great invasion and why it failed, by a great scholar.]]></body>
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