"The Grove of Eagles" by Winston Graham, published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1963, copyright by the author. First US Book Club Edition issued one month after the first print of the 1st US Trade edition.

Dust jacket with Book Club Edition imprinted on the front flap [some edge wear, stain on the back side of dj: see photo]; hard boards with gold lettering on spine, 5.3/4" x 8.3/4"; 480 pages, a little stained back endpaper, very good condition.

A historical novel by the British writer Winston Graham set in Cornwall during the Elizabethan era around the time of the Spanish Armada. In 1588 the Spanish Armada had been defeated in the English Channel and the whole of Elizabethan England was alert for the revenge that surely had to follow. Men like John Killigrew, commanding a key position on the Cornish coast, were vital to the survival of the country, and it is through the eyes of his eldest son, Maugan, that the story unfolds. Rich in action, it is also crowded with unforgettable characters, many of them based on actual historical figures. Maugan Killigrew himself emerges, through his loneliness and his love, his physical suffering in a Spanish gaol, as a touchingly honest and believable character who is, above all things, a man of his time.

Winston Mawdsley Graham, born Winston Grime (1908-2003), was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other works, including contemporary thrillers, period novels, short stories, non-fiction and plays.

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