The Confident Hope of a Miracle is a gripping account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada-the defining international event of the Elizabethan age.

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

I’m reading Neil Hanson’s book “The Confident Hope of a Miracle”, about the Spanish Armada.

We are obviously all aware of the storm that swept the Armada to oblivion in 1588.

But Hanson goes into detail on two other storms that summer, both evidently exceptional in their own way:

None of this would have come as any surprise to HH Lamb, who wrote about it in “Climate, History and the Modern World”: