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Drake's Drum Sounds a Muffled Note Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate Harry Kelsey Yale University Press / 566 pages / $35 REVIEWED BY Hugh Thomas S it Francis Drake is still commonly...
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/ t was an amazing feat, the conquest of the mighty Aztec Empire by some 530 Spanish adventurers under the resourceful leadership of hidalgo Hernan Cortes in 1519-21. The story has had its Homer in...
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The indefatigable Hugh Thomas! How other to characterize the author of this blockbuster of a book about the Cold War, a picture of the world in early 1946? It is the eighth book Thomas has published...
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B00KS IN REVIEW - "A History of the World" At the close of his history of the world, Hugh Thomas observes that while modern industrial society sometimes seems free of its past, modern tyrannies are...
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Sir Francis Drake
(January 1999)
