For the last days

For the last days of shopping frenzy, another daily TPM Featured Book: Colin Martin’s and Geoffrey Parker’s truly marvelous The Spanish Armada. Actually, this is the The Spanish Armada: Revised Edition, which just came out last year. I’ve only read the original. But if it’s revised it must be even better. And I’m going to assume it still turns out that the Armada didn’t manage the hook up down there in the Spanish Netherlands and the fire ships did their business and the anchors were cut. In any case, a wonderful history with splendid new evidence from the archives and the bottom of the sea.