Hugh Thomas is the author of "The Spanish Civil War" and other works, both nonfiction and fiction. He lives in London, England.
Alfred MacAdam Newsday Conquest makes such exciting reading one
forgets that these things actually happened. Hugh Thomas documents
characters and events in as much detail as humanly
conceivable....Monumental.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt The New York Times So dramatic is the
account in Mr. Thomas's telling, that...you almost don't want to
give the story away....Compelling recounted.
Edward Schumacher The Wall Street Journal A fascinating work that
will surely go down as a defining book on the era and one of the
best and most readable nonfiction books of the year.
Thomas Christensen San Francisco Chronicle Thomas balances writerly
skill, exhaustive research, and scholarly documentation to make his
book as useful as possible to both general and more involved
readers....Essential.
Wendy Smith Chicago Sun-Times Thomas does full justice to a titanic
subject in his vigorous narrative, which contains enough heroism,
cruelty and pathos for ten Greek tragedies.
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