Hugh Thomas Bücher

Dies ist die erste große Darstellung der Eroberung Mexikos seit über 150 Jahren. Hugh Thomas entwirft ein imposantes und farbenprächtiges Gemälde der Begegnung zwischen zwei Kulturen, Denkweisen und Mentalitäten. Er läßt das alte Aztekenreich mit seiner Hauptstadt Tenochtitlán wiedererstehen und schildert in spannender Weise die militärischen Aktionen, die den Untergang des Weltreichs besiegelten. Vor allem jedoch porträtiert er die handelnden Personen mit dem bewährten, klaren Blick des Angelsachen für Charaktere und ihre Eigenheiten - vor allen anderen die beiden Protagonisten Cortés und Montezuma.

The narrative follows Peter Ayerst, an RAF pilot whose extensive service spanned from the onset to the conclusion of World War II. His experiences include critical battles such as Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, and D-Day, showcasing his resilience and skill as he flew various aircraft, including Spitfires and Hurricanes. Ayerst's remarkable journey also highlights his recognition with the Distinguished Flying Cross and collaboration with renowned test pilot Alex Henshaw post-war, making his untold story a significant contribution to aviation history.

The Earl of Clarendon describes 17th century bullfights; Salvador Dali plays a surrealist joke on a snooty barman at the Ritz; Rubens visits the Alc�zar; Manet is at the Prado; generals and anarchists meet in the Puerta del Sol. Hugh Thomas has chosen these and other vivid snapshots of Madrid's history from diaries, letters, memoirs and novels across five centuries to evoke the city's drama and life.

After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. "The Slave Trade" is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas's achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time but to answer as well such controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. Thomas also movingly describes such accounts as are available from the slaves themselves.

'World Without End' is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authority. It tells the story of life in a conquered territory that stretched from Cuba to Peru, and of the final conquests of the greatest empire that the world had then seen since the fall of Rome 1,000 years before.

Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today.What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the world to fight against Franco between 1936 and 1939? Why did the British and US governments refuse to intervene? And why did the Republican cause collapse so violently? Now revised and updated, Hugh Thomas's classic account presents the most objective and unbiased analysis of a passionate struggle where fascism and democracy, communism and Catholicism were at stake - and which was as much an international war as a Spanish one.

Exploring the successful Norman invasion of England in 1066, this concise and readable book focuses especially on the often dramatic and enduring changes wrought by William the Conqueror and his followers. From the perspective of a modern social historian, Hugh M. Thomas considers the conquest's wide-ranging impact by taking a fresh look at such traditional themes as the influence of battles and great men on history and by assessing how far the shift in ruling dynasty and noble elites affected broader aspects of English history. The results, Thomas convincingly shows, are both complex and surprising. In some areas where one might expect profound influence, such as government institutions, there was little change. In other respects, such as the indirect transformation of the English language, the conquest had profound and lasting effects that transformed society as a whole. With its combination of exciting narrative and clear analysis, this book will capture student interest in a range of courses on Medieval and Western history.