Elizabeth's Spymaster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elizabeth's Spymaster write by Robert Hutchinson. This book was released on 2007-08-07. Elizabeth's Spymaster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Her Majesty's Spymaster
Her Majesty's Spymaster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Her Majesty's Spymaster write by Stephen Budiansky. This book was released on 2006-07-25. Her Majesty's Spymaster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sir Francis Walsingham’s official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England’s first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant, Walsingham worked brilliantly behind the scenes to foil Elizabeth’s rival Mary Queen of Scots and outwit Catholic Spain and France, which had arrayed their forces behind her. Though he cut an incongruous figure in Elizabeth’s worldly court, Walsingham managed to win the trust of key players like William Cecil and the Earl of Leicester before launching his own secret campaign against the queen’s enemies. Covert operations were Walsingham’s genius; he pioneered techniques for exploiting double agents, spreading disinformation, and deciphering codes with the latest code-breaking science that remain staples of international espionage.
God's Secret Agents
God's Secret Agents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God's Secret Agents write by Alice Hogge. This book was released on 2005-06-14. God's Secret Agents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One evening in 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young men landed in secret on a beach in Norfolk, England. They were Jesuit priests, Englishmen, and their aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms: return England to the Catholic Church. Eighteen years later their mission had been shattered by the actions of the Gunpowder Plotters -- a small group of terrorists who famously tried to destroy the Houses of Parliament -- for the Jesuits were accused of having designed "that most horrid and hellish conspiracy." In an unusual turn of events, the future of every Catholic they had hoped to save would soon come to depend on the silence of one Oxford carpenter, a man being tortured in the Tower of London for building priest holes, those bunkers in which the Catholic clergy hid from English authorities. Using contemporary documents, Alice Hogge's brilliant new book pieces together a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between priests and government spies, as Queen Elizabeth and her ministers fought to defend the state, and English Catholics fought to defend their souls. It follows the priests -- God's Secret Agents -- from their schooling on the Continent, through their perilous return journeys and their lonely lives in hiding, to the scaffold, where a gruesome death awaited them. To their government they were traitors; to their fellow Catholics they were glorious martyrs. It was a distinction that the Gunpowder Plot would put to the test. Ultimately God's Secret Agents is the story of men who would die for their cause undone by men who would kill for it.
The Watchers
The Watchers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Watchers write by Stephen Alford. This book was released on 2012-11-13. The Watchers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a Europe aflame with wars of religion and dynastic conflicts, Elizabeth I came to the throne of a realm encircled by menace. To the great Catholic powers of France and Spain, England was a heretic pariah state, a canker to be cut away for the health of the greater body of Christendom. Elizabeth's government, defending God's true Church of England and its leader, the queen, could stop at nothing to defend itself. Headed by the brilliant, enigmatic, and widely feared Sir Francis Walsingham, the Elizabethan state deployed every dark art: spies, double agents, cryptography, and torture. Delving deeply into sixteenth-century archives, Stephen Alford offers a groundbreaking, chillingly vivid depiction of Elizabethan espionage, literally recovering it from the shadows. In his company we follow Her Majesty's agents through the streets of London and Rome, and into the dank cells of the Tower. We see the world as they saw it-ever unsure who could be trusted or when the fatal knock on their own door might come. The Watchers is a riveting exploration of loyalty, faith, betrayal, and deception with the highest possible stakes, in a world poised between the Middle Ages and modernity.
Her Majesty's Spymaster
Her Majesty's Spymaster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Her Majesty's Spymaster write by Stephen Budiansky. This book was released on 2005. Her Majesty's Spymaster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
