Roger Crowley: Conquerors [2016] paperback Condition:Like New From the international bestselling author

From the international bestselling author of MY BRILLIANT FRIEND

Winner of Costa First Novel Award

that brought them such different lives

A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between

Roger Crowley: Conquerors [2016] paperback Condition:Like New From the international bestselling authorAs remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East then set about creating the first long range maritime empire. In an astonishing blitz of thirty years, a handful of visionary and utterly ruthless empire