The Armada (book)
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The Armada is a popular history by Garrett Mattingly—a historian who taught at Columbia University—about the attempt of the Spanish Armada to invade England in 1588. It was published in 1959 by Houghton Mifflin Company, and Mattingly won a special Pulitzer Prize for the work in 1960 as "a first class history and a literary work of high order."[1][2] It was published in the UK in the same year by Jonathan Cape under the title The Defeat of the Spanish Armada.
One biographer wrote that The Armada was "written in purple prose but a royal purple, which read like historical fiction."[3] Another biographer noted that Mattingly "treated his job as that of telling a story about people" and that The Armada was "that rarity, a book by a professional historian and admired by professional historians which nevertheless became a best seller."[4] The Armada remains in print and has also been issued outside the United States under the title The Defeat of the Spanish Armada.
References
[edit]- ^ "Special Awards and Citations". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-12-02.
- ^ Margaret Leech and In the Days of McKinley won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for History.
- ^ James Friguglietti. "Mattingly, Garrett", American National Biography.
- ^ J. H. Hexter, Doing History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971), 157, 169.
- 1959 non-fiction books
- 20th-century history books
- Books about military history
- History books about England
- History books about Spain
- History books about the 16th century
- Pulitzer Prize-winning works
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