Hugh Thomas is the award-winning author of numerous books, including The Spanish Civil War, Rivers of Gold, and The Slave Trade. He won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Arts Council Prize for History. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne. Hugh lives in London.
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The legacy of imperial Spain was shaped by many hands. Chief among them is the towering figure of King Philip II, the cultivated Spanish monarch whom a contemporary once called 'the arbiter of the world.' Cheerful and pious, he inherited vast authority fr... SEE MORE