ALL HIS SPIES (ROBERT CECIL) (HB)

Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies both external and internal threatened to destroy England as a Protestant state, most spectacularly with the Spanish Armada and the Gunpowder Plot. In this wonderfully engaging and original work of history, Alford shows how easily these dramas could have turned out very differently.