All His Spies - The Secret World of Robert Cecil

Cecil stood at the heart of the Tudor and then Stuart state, a vital figure in managing the succession from Elizabeth I to James I & VI, warding off military and religious threats and steering the decisions of two very different but equally wilful and hard-to-manage monarchs. The promising son of Queen Elizabeth''s chief minister Lord Burghley, for Cecil there was no choice but politics, and he became supremely skilled in the arts of power, making many rivals and enemies.

All His Spies is a wonderfully engaging and original work of history. Many readers are familiar with the great events of this tumultuous time, but All His Spies shows how easily these dramas could have turned out very differently. Cecil''s sureness of purpose, his espionage network and good luck all conspired to keep England uninvaded and to create a new ''British'' monarchy which has endured to the present day.<>

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Alford, Alford Stephen
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 19.06.2025
• EAN: 9780141991832
• ISBN: 978-0-14-199183-2
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; England, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, Espionage & secret services, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Espionage and secret services, Biography: historical, political and military, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, 1485–1603 (Tudor period), 1603–1649 (Jacobean and Early Stuart period)