Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Map of Spain -- 1 -- The Eleanor Crosses -- 2 -- Man in Black -- 3 -- Catherine -- England's Beloved Spanish Queen -- 4 -- Bloody Mary -- 5 -- Pirates -- 6 -- Philip's Annus Horibilis -- 7 -- After the Armada -- Cornwall and Cadiz -- 8 -- The War of the Spanish Succession -- 9 -- The Pillar of Hercules -- 10 -- Minorca -- 11 -- London's Plaza Mayor -- 12 -- Sharpe's War -- 13 -- The British Legion -- 14 -- King Juan Carlos I's Grandmother -- 15 -- The Sell-Out of the Century -- Epilogue -- Principal Sources
Summary
This historical analysis of the political and religious relationship of Britain and Spain, from 12th-century dynastic alliances to the Spanish support of the English-American invasion of Iraq, asserts that there have been many significant links between the two countries over the past 800 years. While England and Spain were rivals in the New World, British and Spanish troops fought side by side for causes of mutual concern during the Peninsular War, Spanish Civil War, and World War II. This bittersweet relationship has been fundamental to Continental politics and the position of each count
