| Author: | Martin Hume | ISBN: | 9781518358869 |
| Publisher: | Perennial Press | Publication: | January 5, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Martin Hume |
| ISBN: | 9781518358869 |
| Publisher: | Perennial Press |
| Publication: | January 5, 2016 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
FOR three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip II. of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point of view. He had been alternately deified and execrated, until through the mists of time and prejudice he loomed rather as the permanent embodiment of a system than as an individual man swayed by changing circumstances and controlled by human frailties...
FOR three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip II. of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point of view. He had been alternately deified and execrated, until through the mists of time and prejudice he loomed rather as the permanent embodiment of a system than as an individual man swayed by changing circumstances and controlled by human frailties...
