Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage, (Paperback)

from billiecat

If you are looking for an interesting, illuminating book about the Elizabethan "police state," keep looking. This shortish book is light on details and lacks good sourcing. I was hoping, with a biography about someone whose fingers were in every Elizabethan pie, who knew, figuratively and literal...

from Chris_El

Brevity is something author valued in this work. And yet when you arrive at the end you don't feel that the story suffered from lack of info. Sir Walsingham was not the first spy master. But he was very significant in forging the case that led to the trial and execution of Mary Queen of Scots. He...

from van_stef

So, I picked this book up because it was something different and sounded interesting. It was very good. The book does cram a lot of names and details into this small of a book (there's only a little over 200 pages). Luckly it does come with an index of who's who in the front of the book and a tim...