Brags and Boasts: Propaganda in the Year of the Armada.(Brief Article) Contemporary Review | June 1, 1996| | COPYRIGHT 1996 Contemporary Review Company Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

This is not yet another book about the defeat of the Spanish Armada, thank goodness, but about the expectations of propagandists on both sides: English and Spanish, Protestant and Catholic. This is appropriate, for the author, we gather, has had a long career in advertising and marketing. Not, however, in history or he would not think that the defeat of the Armada was a 'myth' or that the English fleet did not come up to expectations. It did, and Pope Sixtus V, who was a great admirer of Elizabeth I and of Drake, thought that it would.

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