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Hugh Thomas

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October 21, 1931 in Windsor, The United Kingdom

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Hugh Swynnerton Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, is a British historian and Hispanist.

Thomas was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset before taking a BA in 1953 at Queens' College, Cambridge. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. His 1961 book The Spanish Civil War won the Somerset Maugham Award for 1962. A significantly revised and enlarged third edition was published in 1977. Cuba, or the Pursuit of Freedom (1971) is a book of over 1,500 pages tracing the history of Cuba from Spanish colonial rule until the Cuban Revolution. Thomas spent 10 years researching the contents of his book.

Thomas is married to the former Vanessa Jebb, daughter of the first Acting United Nations Secretary-General Gladwyn Jebb.

From 1966 to 1975 Thomas was...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 508 ratings · 93 reviews · 43 distinct works

	Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico 4.27 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1993 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Spanish Civil War 4.13 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1961 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870 3.86 avg rating — 63 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire from Columbus to Magellan 3.59 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	An Unfinished History of the World 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Golden Empire: Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Yo, Moctezuma, Emperador de los Aztecas 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Beaumarchais in Seville: An Intermezzo 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Spain 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1962	My rating:

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