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God's Secret Agents; Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowber Plot
by Hogge, Alice
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0007156375
- ISBN 13
- 9780007156375
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About This Item
UK: Harper/Collins ltd, 2005. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Using contemporary documents, ' God's Secret Agents pieces together a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between priests and government spies, as Elizabeth and her ministers fought to defend the state, and English Catholics fought to defend their souls. The blue boards, page block and dust jacket are all square, tight and clean..
Synopsis
A thrilling account of treachery, loyalty and martyrdom in Elizabethan England from an exceptional new writer.As darkness fell on the evening of Friday, 28 October 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young Englishmen landed in secret on a Norfolk beach. They were Jesuit priests. Their aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms: return England to the Catholic Church.Eighteen years later their mission had been shattered by the actions of a small group of terrorists, the Gunpowder Plotters; they themselves had been accused of designing 'that most horrid and hellish conspiracy'; and the future of every Catholic they had come to save depended on the silence of an Oxford joiner, builder of priest-holes, being tortured in the Tower of London. 'God's Secret Agents' tells the story of Elizabeth's 'other' England, a country at war with an unseen enemy, a country peopled – according to popular pamphlets and Government proclamations – with potential traitors, fifth-columnists and assassins. And it tells this story from the perspective of that unseen 'enemy', England's Catholics, a beleaguered, alienated minority, struggling to uphold its faith. Ultimately, 'God's Secret Agents' is the story of men who would die for their cause undone by men who would kill for it.
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- God's Secret Agents; Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowber Plot
- Author
- Hogge, Alice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0007156375
- ISBN 13
- 9780007156375
- Publisher
- Harper/Collins ltd
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall
- Keywords
- Elizabeth I, English History, Elizabethan History, Gunpowder Plot.
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