Dear Friends and Readers, During this siege, Dutch Protestants holding Antwerp invented three new weapons to throw at the besieging Spanish Catholic army. But contemporary images only exist of the first two weapons. When a reader of The Reversible Mask: An Elizabethan Spy Novel, drew me a period-appropriate image of this third weapon , I …
Hurtling back to the sixteenth century: A Fresh Twist on an Iconic Battle.TheTudor Society publishes my article on the siege of Antwerp 1584-5, a pivot point in my first novel..
