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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 an...
Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire
Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Empire and building on five centuries of scholarship, World Without End is the epic conclusion of an unprecede...
Though more than half a century has passed since the Spaish Civil War began in 1936, it is still the subject of intense controversy. What was it that ...
New Ed. with an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Thomas
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The Rise of the Spanish Empire
Inspired by hopes of both riches and of converting native people to Christianity, the Spanish adventurers of the fifteenth century convinced themselve...
Mexicos historie 1518-1522....
Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America
From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European p...
25 Years Later
A History
Explores the Cuban history, from the British capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of Spanish and American domination up to the 20th century and...
A Forensic Investigation
On 22 May 1945, in the immediate aftermath of World War II, the Allies celebrated the capture of the most important member of the Nazi hierarchy, Reic...
The Spanish Empire of Charles V
Charles V, Emperor of Europe and the New World, is the central figure in the second volume of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire. It be...
Hugh Thomas explores the role of the secular clergy - priests and other clerics outside of monastic orders - in medieval England, and their influence,...
An Intermezzo
Despite the differences of their subject matter, science and theology have a cousinly relationship, John Polkinghorne contends in his latest thought-p...
A history of political, social, economic, and cultural events and developments in Cuba between Batista's coup and the Missile Crisis portrays leading ...
Born in an impoversihed region of Galicia, possessed of little education and less money, Eduardo Barreiros (1919-1992) rose to become an immensely suc...
Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico
An account of the collapse of Montezuma's great Mexican empire under the onslaughts of Cortes' conquistadores....
The Unlikely Death of Heinrich Himmler
This work is an exploration of the web of secret deals and international intrigue concerning the death and body of Heinrich Himmler. Hugh Thomas revea...
England After William the Conqueror
Exploring the successful Norman invasion of England in 1066, this concise and readable book focuses especially on the often dramatic and enduring chan...
Can Europe Play a Part?
Søgeord: Sandinister; Caudillos; Central America; El Slavador; Contras; Politik; Duarte; Fredsbestræbelser; Muligheder for Europæisk Samarbejde; EU...
Presents evidence to support the author's theory that the man who has spent thirty-four years in Spandau Prison is not Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, b...
Poems, 1697-1700
This is the final volume in The Works of John Dryden and the last volume of poetry written by Dryden before he died in 1700....
January 1984 marked the 25th anniversary of Fidel Castro's emergence to power. The Cuban Revolution: 25 Years Later is a product of the CSIS Cuba Proj...
A 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...
Court Life under King John, 1199-1216
Although King John is remembered for his political and military failures, he also resided over a magnificent court. Power and Pleasure reconstructs li...
Basic Water Treatment is an essential resource for water engineers at all levels - a textbook for students, a handbook for engineers or chemists who a...
The Beginnings of the Cold War, 1945-46
Starten af Den Kolde Krig, Armed Truce. En sovjetisk minister brugte "Armed Truce" som det bedste udtryk for den politiske situation man kunne håbe p...
The Imaginary Kafka Parables
Franzlations takes the parables and aphorisms of Kafka as a starting point, and steps a few places to the left in order to reinvent them. Sometimes th...
Poems, 1693-1696
This volume contains the poems of Dryden extending from 1693 to 1696. Mostly these are translations of Roman poetry, specifically the satires of Juven...
Introductory Book (first Standard Course)
Verse and Prose in Honour of the Hidden God