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The Watchers

Stephen Alford · 2012

A historical study of Elizabethan espionage focusing on the secretive spies in Walsingham's employ.

Tom Holland calls it a great book describing the secretive spies in Walsingham's employ.

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“this is stephen alford in his great book the watchers says he's secret and secretive a man who had traveled to the uttermost in the cipher…”

Why: It is a great book describing the secretive spies in Walsingham's employ.

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