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Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England by Robert Hutchinson
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Francis Walsingham was the first 'spymaster' in the modern sense. His methods anticipated those of MI5 and MI6 and even those of the KGB. He maintained a network of spies across Europe, including double-agents at the highest level in Rome and Spain - the sworn enemies of Queen Elizabeth and her protesta ...Show more
House of Treason by Robert Hutchinson
30.00 NZD
Category: History
King-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - Seducers The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the true power behind the throne. They were certainly extraordinarily influential, with two Howard women m ...Show more
House of Treason: The Rise & Fall of a Tudor Dynasty by Robert Hutchinson
30.00 NZD
Category: History
King-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - Seducers The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the true power behind the throne. They were certainly extraordinarily influential, with two Howard women marry ...Show more
The Last Days of Henry VIII : Conspiracy, treason and heresy at the court of the dying tyrant by Robert Hutchinson
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Conspiracies, treason and heresy at the court of the dying tyrant After 35 years in power, Henry VIII was a bloated, hideously obese, black-humoured old man, rarely seen in public. He had striven all his life to ensure the survival of his dynasty by siring legitimate sons, yet his only male heir was eig ...Show more
The Spanish Armada by Robert Hutchinson
30.00 NZD
Category: History
After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe - not least Spain. In October 1585 King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence war bet ...Show more
The Spanish Armada by Robert Hutchinson
55.00 NZD
Category: History
After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe - not least Spain. In October 1585 King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence war bet ...Show more
Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's most Notorious Minister by Robert Hutchinson
30.00 NZD
Category: History
The son of a brewer, Cromwell rose from obscurity to become 'Earl of Essex, Vice-Regent and High Chamberlain of England, Keep of the Privy Seal and Chancellor of the Exchequer'. He manoeuvred his way to the top by intrigue, bribery and sheer force of personality in a court dominated by the malevolent Ki ...Show more
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