Les grandes batailles navales #[16]

Part of Glénat's celebrated Les Grandes Batailles Navales series, this 2020 volume brings the clash at Gravelines — the climactic confrontation of the Spanish Armada — to vivid life. The cover art depicts towering galleons bearing red-crossed and colored pennants surging through choppy grey-green seas, their hulls locked in a tense proximity that conveys the chaos of 16th-century naval warfare at its most dramatic. With artwork credited to Denis Béchu, Giuseppe Baiguera, and Nico Tamburo from a script by Jean-Yves Delitte, this is a handsomely crafted tribute to one of history's most consequential sea battles, produced in partnership with the Musée national de la Marine.