Listen to the interview, on All Things Considered, here. So I’ve kept an even keel, you might say. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject.Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book Review. Thomas has understood the Spanish Civil War incredibly well and has written it superbly. Well, actually, I made two speeches in the House of Lords this year, and one might have been said to be on the left, one might have been said to be on the right. 37.95 9 Used from 15.25 3 New from 29.20. You mentioned that I was in the House of Lords. I don’t think I have, myself, changed very much. His 1961 book The Spanish Civil War won the Somerset Maugham Award for 1962. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. Thomas was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset before taking a BA in 1953 at Queens College, Cambridge. SIEGEL: have you changed much over the years, or is it entirely the perspective of your critics that has changed? Hugh Swynnerton Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, was a British historian and Hispanist. Now, that’s an interesting experience, which I rather enjoy. THOMAS: I’m still thought of in Spain, to some extent, as Hugh Thomas of the Spanish Civil War, though I’ve had a strange experience since then, was when my book came out first on the Spanish Civil War, I was thought to be valiantly left. Hugh Thomas, whose The Spanish Civil War (1961) marked a milestone, was interviewed on NPR last week about his latest take on Spanish history: The Golden Empire: Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America:
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