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Madrid : A Traveller's Reader by Hugh Thomas
Category: Travel | Series: Traveller's Reader
The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present by the past. In this Traveller's Reader, a city that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most ambitious political enterprise the western world had se ...Show more
Rivers of Gold by Hugh Thomas
Category: History
The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas' "Rivers of Gold" brings the rise of Spain's global empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age. Inspired by hopes of both riches and of converting native people to Christianity, the Spanish adventurers of the fifteent ...Show more
The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas
Category: Accessories
Moving between Spanish conquest abroad and the court of the astute Charles V, Hugh Thomas' "The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V" is the second volume in a planned trilogy on the Spanish Empire. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in South America in the sixteenth century, they swept acros ...Show more
The Spanish Civil War (revised edition) by Hugh Thomas
Category: History
A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated a ...Show more
The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume I - They Were Counted by Miklos Banffy; Hugh Thomas (Introduction by); Patrick Thursfield (Translator); Katalin Banffy-Jelen (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
**Washington Post Best Books of 2013**The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Mikl s B nffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism ...Show more
The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volumes II and III - They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided by Miklos Banffy; Hugh Thomas (Introduction by); Patrick Thursfield (Translator); Katalin Banffy-Jelen (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
**Washington Post Best Books of 2013**The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Mikl s B nffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism ...Show more
World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas
Category: History
World Without Endis the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile, battles with the French over Florida, and then, in the 1580s, the extraordinary proje ...Show more
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