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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