Hugh Thomas, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-28923-2
Thomas established himself as an expert on Nazi forensics in his previous work, The Murder of Adolf Hitler, and here he speculates that Himmler never committed suicide in 1945—or, at any rate, that the corpse buried under his name belonged to...
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Hugh Thomas, Author . Random $35 (720p) ISBN 978-0-375-50204-0
Thomas has long belonged to the elite of Spanish studies. His popular reputation was made in 1961 by a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, strongly sympathetic to the Second Republic and smuggled across the Pyrenees during Franco's...
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Hugh Thomas, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (832p) ISBN 978-0-671-51104-3
From the author of The Spanish Civil War comes this epic history of the fall of the Aztec empire to Spain. (Apr.)
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Hugh Thomas, Author Simon & Schuster $29.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70518-3
British historian Thomas's epic, spellbinding narrative history of conquistador Hernan Cortes's destruction of Montezuma's Aztec empire is a stunning meditation on Christian Spain's cataclysmic encounter with native American civilization. Thomas (...
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Hugh Thomas, Author Simon & Schuster $37.5 (928p) ISBN 978-0-684-81063-8
This monumental study of one of the grimmest subjects in the history of Western civilization combines scholarship and good writing so effortlessly that few contemporary books can be compared to it. As Thomas (The Spanish Civil War) points out, the...
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Hugh Thomas. Random, $35 (688p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6125-9
One of history's greatest upheavals plays out as melodrama and picaresque in this rousing saga of the founding of Spain's Latin American empire. Picking up after Cortés's capture of Tenochtitlán in 1522, National Book Award–winning historian Thomas (
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Hugh Thomas, Author, W. Hugh Thomas, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14018-2
Rejecting historians' consensus that Hitler and his mistress, Eva Braun, committed suicide in the Nazi underground bunker as Allied forces took Berlin, British surgeon and forensic expert Thomas (The Murder of Rudolf Hess) asserts that the two...
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Hugh Thomas. Random, $35 (496p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9811-5
The final installment of Thomas’s trilogy (after Rivers of Gold and The Golden Empire) completes his overview of Spain’s Golden Age–era conquests in the Americas and Asia. While he provides contextual information about Philip II’s European and...
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