The Spanish Armada~The Defeat of the Spanish Armada~Garrett Mattingly~2002~Slipcase~Near Fine Condition~Free Shipping

The Spanish Armada~The Defeat of the Spanish Armada~Garrett Mattingly~2002~Slipcase~Near Fine Condition~Free Shipping.

A beautiful boxed volume of a historical classic. Very collectible. The only flaw are some very minor pressure indentations on the first couple of pages.

“Garrett Mattingly (May 6, 1900 – December 18, 1962) was a professor of European history at Columbia University who specialized in early modern diplomatic history. In 1960 he won a Pulitzer Prize for The Defeat of the Spanish Armada.

His lectures at Columbia were popular both for their learning and their sprightly presentation. A friend, Leo Gershoy, recalled that Mattingly lectured with head “cocked, eyes sparkling, his smile benign, he talked in a flow of words, witty, gay, and serious, about poetry and drama and novels, about music he loved dearly, about tapestries and paintings he admired, about rich wines and fine food that few appreciated with equal discrimination. He loved, too, to talk about explorers whose voyages he could so fully trace, and about sailing ships, how they were built and manned and how navigated.” Mattingly treated his job as a historian “as that of telling a story about people” and he had “a wide-range panoramic vision.”

Mattingly’s most successful book was The Armada (1959). As one biographer has written, the book was “written in purple prose but a royal purple, which read like historical fiction.” Hailed enthusiastically by critics, the book was a bestseller as both Book-of-the-Month Club and History Book Club selections. Mattingly also won a special Pulitzer Prize for the work. He was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.” - From Wikipedia

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