World Without End

This is history as it used to be: adventurous men (and a few women), masses of action, little analysis but racy gossip and colourful scene setting. We could often be reading one of the tales the colonists themselves sent back – Jeremy Treglown * Daily Telegraph *
Literary power is a vital part of a great historian’s armoury. As in his earlier books, Thomas demonstrates here that he has this in abundance. But equally important is [his] sense of perspective … With all its flaws, Thomas argues, the Spanish Empire left an extraordinarily rich legacy – Christopher Silvester * Financial Times *
World Without End is full of illuminating detail, drawn from painstaking work * Economist *

Hugh Thomas is the author of numerous acclaimed books, including:

• The Spanish Civil War (1961), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
• The Suez Affair (1967)
• Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom (1971)
• An Unfinished History of the World (1979)
• Armed Truce (1986)
• Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico (1994)
• The Slave Trade (1997)
• Rivers of Gold (2003), the first volume of his Spanish Empire trilogy
• The Golden Age (2010), the second volume of his Spanish Empire trilogy

From 1966 to 1976, he served as Professor of History at the University of Reading. He was chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies in London from 1979 to 1991.

In 2008, he was made a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) and received the Gabarrón Prize. In 2009, he was honored with the Calvo Serer Prize, the Boccaccio Prize, and the Nonino Prize in Italy.

Hugh Thomas is a member of the Academia de Buenas Letras in Seville and a Caballero of the Maestranza of Ronda. In 1981, he became a life peer as Lord Thomas of Swynnerton.

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