Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593) by Timothy Ashby

Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593) by Timothy Ashby

Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593), is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan spy and diplomat who was ambassador to Scotland during the Spanish Armada, provides fresh social, political and foreign policy insights from the perspective of a gentleman spy who took part in some of the most important events of his time.

"[A] fascinating, exciting, and at times all too familiar tale of political conspiracies, double agents, personal rivalries and the perennial quest, by states and by individuals, for power and control..Tim Ashby is to be commended on this excellent tribute to his distant relative, which is also an illuminating account of life in Tudor and Stuart times."—The Edinburgh Reporter

Dr Timothy Ashby has held two Top Secret security clearances and served as a senior government official, lawyer and international businessman. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, he is the author of five books, including the hardcover non-fiction work The Bear in the Back Yard: Moscow’s Caribbean Strategy and over 100 articles on history and international relations in Harvard International Review, RUSI Journal, US Naval Institute Proceedings, and Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 1984. He also published three historical mystery novels – Time Fall, Devil’s Den and In Shadowland.

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ISBN 13	9781910895597
ISBN 10	1910895598
Title	Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593)
Author	Timothy Ashby
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Scotland Street Press
Year published	2022-03-30
Number of pages	429
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