Doubleday / Transworld Publishers, 2003. Spine faded and creased, small ?coffee stains to lower spine and left hand edge of front cover.

It is the summer of 1588, and the fate and future of England hangs in the balance. Obsessed by the dream of reclaiming England for the Catholic Church, Philip II of Spain has assembled a fleet of huge, castle-crowned galleons that stretched for miles across the face of the ocean. In wait in the Netherlands lies a battle-hardened Spanish army, ferocious professionals with a taste for rape, looting and atrocity. Across the Channel the English are scraping together bands of untrained men, many armed only with scythes, stakes or longbows... Their only hope lies in the defence of the English Navy...