El tercio que nunca existió

My name is Julián Romero and I am Master of the Field of the Tercios of the King our Lord. I serve today with Don Felipe II as yesterday I served with his august father, Caesar Carlos. You want me to tell you my story and I will tell you that my only merit is having saved my skin where others gave their lives. Do not look for epics or fantasies here, because this is not a book of chivalry, but rather a faithful and dry memory of a soldier's life. All that you will find in these pages are true and certain facts, it is well known that the military does not go well with the imagination. You will have heard in bars and brothels, not in palaces or discreet houses, that I was a mercenary in the service of the King of England. The last one who said that to his face saw his torn. Because I served in England, yes, and certainly long years, but not for King Henry VIII the heretic, but by office of our King the Caesar Charles, sometimes secretly and sometimes with the cards face up. Nor was I a mercenary, but a soldier of honor. If you want to know the truth of everything that happened in those days, I will tell you.