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NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW
"Its publication simply affirms Hugh Thomas's record as one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times."
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"Its publication simply affirms Hugh Thomas's record as one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times." (NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW )
"Hugh Thomas has written a detailed narrative that is utterly enthralling." Ingmar Collinson, Waterstone's Hull (WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY )
"So steeped is he in the spirit of the time, so familiar with its people and places that we almost feel he must have been there at the time." (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
"what a bloody briliant canvas he paints... Moving with skill and pace across the Atlantic, he shows in dramatic detail that Spain's rapid expansion transformed Europe as much as the Americas." (INDEPENDENT )
"Thomas has developed an engagingly discursive style that alights on illuminating detail to enrich a panoramic narrative." (IAIN FINLAYSON THE TIMES )
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"Its publication simply affirms Hugh Thomas's record as one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times."
Review
"Its publication simply affirms Hugh Thomas's record as one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times." (NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW )
"Hugh Thomas has written a detailed narrative that is utterly enthralling." Ingmar Collinson, Waterstone's Hull (WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY )
"So steeped is he in the spirit of the time, so familiar with its people and places that we almost feel he must have been there at the time." (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
"what a bloody briliant canvas he paints... Moving with skill and pace across the Atlantic, he shows in dramatic detail that Spain's rapid expansion transformed Europe as much as the Americas." (INDEPENDENT )
"Thomas has developed an engagingly discursive style that alights on illuminating detail to enrich a panoramic narrative." (IAIN FINLAYSON THE TIMES )
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The Spanish army and the court lay in Andalusia, at Santa Fe, a new white-painted town which King Fernando and Queen Isabel had built to serve their siege of Granada, the last Islamic city in Spain to resist the Christians. Read the first page
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The Spanish army and the court lay in Andalusia, at Santa Fe, a new white-painted town which King Fernando and Queen Isabel had built to serve their siege of Granada, the last Islamic city in Spain to resist the Christians. Read the first page
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