ePub U.S. Army Guerrilla Warfare Handbook by Army in History

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The story of the last great naval battle between England and Spain; evoking a number of colorful and dangerous personalities who fought in the climactic conclusion to these two countries’ great rivalry on the sea. Ireland: Christmas Eve; 1601. As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky; three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation. General Juan del Águila has been sprung from a prison cell to command the last great Spanish armada. His mission: to seize a bridgehead in Queen Elizabeth's England and hold it. Facing him is Charles Blount; a brilliant English strategist whose career is also under a cloud. His affair with a married woman edged him into a treasonous conspiracy―and brought him to within a hair’s breadth of the gallows. Meanwhile; Irish insurgent Hugh O’Neill knows that this is his final chance to drive the English out of Ireland. For each man; this is the last throw of the dice. Tomorrow they will be either heroes or failures. These colorful commanders come alive in this true story of courage and endurance; of bitterness and betrayal; and of drama and intrigue at the highest levels in the courts of England and Spain.