Alice Hogge books

God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot (2005)

There is not enough room here to praise this book. I loved it: it was extremely difficult to put it down! Historically sound, well-researched, and written like the adventure-drama it portrays. Heroism has many faces and it is easy to dismiss 'martyr stories' as exaggerated, euphemistic melodra...