My chat this week is with Timothy Ashby, historian, novelist and author of Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby. Ashby was a spy working for Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster for Queen Elizabeth I. Stationed in Edinburgh, he ran a number of operations to further the Queen's cause against the Spanish.
We also chat about the subject of his novel, Ranger, Fédon's Rebellion in 1795, a slave rebellion on the island of Grenada against the British.
Finally we talk about Operation Condor and the American efforts against regimes and democracies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Timothy Ashby Links
Elizabethan Secret Agent
Ranger
Fédon's rebellion
Sir John Moore
Operation Condor
Salvador - Oliver Stone Movie
Missing - Jack Lemmon Movie set in Chile
The US invasion of Grenada
Heartbreak Ridge - Clint Eastwood Movie
Aspects of History Links
Summer Holiday Reading Recommendations
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