Professor Wernham succeds in capturing the excitement and paranoia of those times both for the generak and the academic reader in a fascinating and entertaining account of this particularly crucial period of England.

• The years 1593-1590; the year 1595; Drake and Hawkins' last voyage; Cadiz or Calais?; the Treaties of Greenwich and the Triple Alliance; the Cadiz expedition gets away; the sack of Cadiz; the aftermath of Cadiz; the 1596 Armada; plans and preparations for 1597; gales and frustrations; the islands voyage and the 1557 Armada; the parting of the ways; the peace of Vervins; after Vervins; Cumberland and Van der Does; the invisible Armada and trouble with neutrals; an army for Ireland; Essex in Ireland; conference at Boulogne; Mountjoy in Ireland, 1600; the Essex Rising and the 1601 Parliament; Ostend and Kinsale; last encounters.

Professor Wernham succeds in capturing the excitement and paranoia of those times both for the generak and the academic reader in a fascinating and entertaining account of this particularly crucial period of England.

• The years 1593-1590; the year 1595; Drake and Hawkins' last voyage; Cadiz or Calais?; the Treaties of Greenwich and the Triple Alliance; the Cadiz expedition gets away; the sack of Cadiz; the aftermath of Cadiz; the 1596 Armada; plans and preparations for 1597; gales and frustrations; the islands voyage and the 1557 Armada; the parting of the ways; the peace of Vervins; after Vervins; Cumberland and Van der Does; the invisible Armada and trouble with neutrals; an army for Ireland; Essex in Ireland; conference at Boulogne; Mountjoy in Ireland, 1600; the Essex Rising and the 1601 Parliament; Ostend and Kinsale; last encounters.