Hugh Thomas is the award-winning author of numerous books, including The Spanish Civil War, Rivers of Gold, and The Slave Trade. He won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Arts Council Prize for History. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne. Hugh lives in London.
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From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain's early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. F... SEE MORE