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Rare and modern books

Graham, Winston

The Grove of Eagles

Doubleday & Co, 1963

20.00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Year of publication
1963
Place of printing
Garden City
Author
Graham, Winston
Publishers
Doubleday & Co
Keyword
HISTORICAL FICTION SPANISH ARMADA ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
Cover description
Very Good, Slightly Scuffed
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

In 1588 the Spanish Armada had been defeated in the English Channel and the whole of Elizabethan England was alert for the revenge that surely had to follow. Men like John Killigrew, commanding a key position on the Cornish coast, were vital to the survival of the country, and it is through the eyes of his eldest son, Maugan, that the story unfolds. Rich in action, it is also crowded with unforgettable characters, many of them based on actual historical figures.Maugan Killigrew himself emerges, through his loneliness and his love, his physical suffering in a Spanish gaol, as a touchingly honest and believable character who is, above all things, a man of his time.