For decades, England has sold "the defeat” of the Spanish Armada in the English Channel as a great success for the Anglo-Saxons, But in fact, it was a British victory in the context of a 16-year war that, in the end, Spain won, A year later, the Spanish inflicted on their rivals an even greater defeat - than that of the Invincible - at La Coruña and Lisbon: The British had 190 ships in 1589 and the Spanish 130 in 1588, but both returned home with only 102, It is in this book that Juan Pérez-Foncea places the adventures and vicissitudes of Santiago Guriezo, surrounded by essential characters of that period as Alonso de Leyva, the second commander of the Invincible (and whom Cervantes praised in “La Galatea”), A vibrant and well-constructed plot as well as documented with exquisite rigor, reveals the true story of those years of legendary battles and epic overflowing,