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S'està carregant… The Voyage of the Armada: The Spanish Storyde David Howarth
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. An excellent exposition of what happens when a ruler of a nation runs a military campaign with basically no input from those in the military and depends on God sending a miracle to make up for any errors he makes. ( ) The Armada (No other descriptors are required) is mythic history in the UK. I was brought up on tales of Drake, Hawkins, Raleigh, etc., always the heroes. Even Professor Mattingly's exemplary Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1959) favours the British version. Here is a refreshingly complete account of the Armada relying on Spanish sources. From them it was clear that the Armada was essentially a failure before it even sailed - under supplied, no real co-ordinated planning, divided between the sailors and military. Its few real warships were designed for a different type of warfare than that being fought by its English opponents. They were encumbered with large numbers of poorly fitted out merchantile conversions, and all ships were overcrowded with soldiers and undercrewed by professional sailors. The British ships were a mix of older and newer, lower, faster, better armed warships. But the ships were in advance of naval tactical thinking. The net result being that neither side was able to achieve a complete victory - despite centuries of British claims to the contrary. The real victor was the weather. David Howarth writes with a novelist's style and historian's attention to detail. The whole is a very satisfying read. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
In May of 1588, on the order of Spain's King Philip, 30,000 soldiers and sailors armed with arquebus and musket set out to sea. There were sixty-five galleons and other major ships of war, twenty-five urcas, and many more smaller vessels. A larger fleet had never before been assembled. In "The Voyage of the Armada," David Howarth brilliantly conveys the drama of the Spanish Armada's progress and brings to life the personalities of the men who influenced its course, from the dogmatic and irrational Philip II to Don Juan Martinez de Recalde, a veteran of many sea campaigns, to Don Pedro and Don Diego de Valdes, who were cousins but also bitter enemies, to the Spanish soldiers and sailors who unquestioningly ventured into unknown seas to confront their fates.In 1884, almost three hundred years after the Armada, Cesareo Fernandez Duro, a Spanish naval captain, published one hundred and ninety-nine letters and documents of the sixteenth century that he had discovered in the royal archives. The general public, however, remained ignorant of much of this material portraying the events of the Armada from the Spanish perspective. Basing his narrative on previously unexplored Spanish sources, David Howarth shows that there is always another side to every conflict. Illustrated with lavish maps and portraits of some of the more notable characters involved, "The Voyage of the Armada" recounts the adventures of these brave men as they go from battles to storms to wrecks and then, finally -- for the lucky ones -- return home. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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