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The Spanish Armadas
AuthorWinston Graham
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistory
Publication date
1972
Media typePrint

The Spanish Armadas is a 1972 non-fiction history book by the British author Winston Graham.[1] It concerns the Anglo-Spanish War of the late Elizabethan era. The period held a fascination for Graham, who had previously written a novel The Grove of Eagles about it nine years earlier.

  1. ^ Woods p.146

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