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 A finely bound first edition copy of Garrett Mattingly’s Pulitzer Prize winning history of the Spanish Armada. Garrett Mattingly’s comprehensive and thorough study of the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Mattingly won the Pulitzer Prize for this popular history.Illustrated with a frontispiece, fourteen plates, and two maps.Near Fine. book.

The Armada is a popular history by Garrett Mattingly—a historian who taught at Columbia University—about the attempt of the Spanish Armada to invade England in 1588. It was published in 1959 by Houghton Mifflin Company, and Mattingly won a special Pulitzer Prize for the work in 1960 as “a first class history and a literary work of high order.” It was published in the UK in the same year by Jonathan Cape under the title The Defeat of the Spanish Armada.

One biographer wrote that The Armada was “written in purple prose but a royal purple, which read like historical fiction.” Another biographer noted that Mattingly “treated his job as that of telling a story about people” and that The Armada was “that rarity, a book by a professional historian and admired by professional historians which nevertheless became a best seller.” The Armada remains in print and has also been issued outside the United States under the title The Defeat of the Spanish Armada.

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.