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. Hugh Swynnerton Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, was a British historian and Hispanist.
Thomas was married to the former Vanessa Jebb, daughter of Librarian’s note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Thomas spent 10 years researching the contents of this book. 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. A significantly revised and enlarged third edition was published in 1977. “Stands without rivals as the most balanced and comprehensive book on the subject.Librarian’s note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Communists, anarchists, monarchists, fascists, socialists, democrats - the various forces of the Spanish Civil War composed a fabric of the twentieth century itself, and Thomas masterfully weaves the diffuse and fascinating threads of the war together in a manner that has established the book as a genuine classic of modern history.
Like no other account, The Spanish Civil War dramatically reassembles the events that led a European nation, in a continent on the brink of world war, to divide against itself, bringing into play the machinations of Franco and Hitler, the bloodshed of Guernica, and the deeply inspiring heroics of those who rallied to the side of democracy. In brilliant, moving detail, Thomas analyzes a devastating conflict in which the hopes, dreams, and dogmas of a century exploded onto the battlefield. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated against civilians by both sides in this epic conflict, this “definitive work on the subject ” (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times) has been given a fresh face forty years after its initial publication in 1961. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject.”-Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book ReviewĪ 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 and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Thomas has understood incredibly well and has written it superbly.
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