Tudor Military-Industrial Complex

Tudor England wasn't just a king with a series of wives, or a queen marketed as a virgin.

This is a story about a military-industrial complex, about power and politics and propaganda, about efforts to prevent high-technology weapons from reaching the hands of the enemy. It is about the tension between armaments production and environmental damage. It documents interference by intelligence agencies in political affairs. But it's not about the United States or the Soviet Union, or the nuclear arms race or intercontinental ballistic missiles. It's about cast-iron cannon, and it took place four hundred years ago in a small corner of England.

In short, the Tudor military-industrial complex. A readable and fascinating account. Truly!