Robert Hutchinson | Elizabeths Spy Master
Elizabeth’s Spy Master: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England
Elizabeth’s Spy Master by Robert Hutchinson explores the remarkable life and clandestine operations of Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary to Elizabeth I and one of the great pioneers of organised intelligence. Faced with religious conflict, assassination plots and threats from abroad, Walsingham constructed an extensive network of spies, informers and code-breakers designed to protect the Queen and the Protestant English state.
Drawing on the turbulent politics of Elizabethan England, Hutchinson examines the covert struggle surrounding Catholic conspiracies, Mary, Queen of Scots, and the threat posed by Spain. Surveillance, intercepted correspondence, cryptography and infiltration all became weapons in Walsingham’s secret war. Combining biography with political and intelligence history, Elizabeth’s Spy Master presents a fascinating portrait of a man whose methods anticipated many of the techniques associated with modern espionage.
- • Publisher: Daedalus Books
• Language: English
• Cover: Paperback
• Year of publication: 2006;
• Number of pages: 416
• Dimensions: approximately 200 × 140 × 40 mm
• Weight: approximately 318 g
• Illustrations: Yes
• Genre: History, biography, political history, intelligence history






