A Traveller's Companion to Madrid

Publisher Marketing: Anthology of eyewitness accounts in diaries, letters, memoirs and novels ranging across five centuries reveals Madrid's history. Contributor Bio:  Thomas, Hugh HUGH THOMAS is the author of numerous histories, including The Spanish Civil War, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award, Conquest, and The Slave Trade. His A History of the World won him the Arts Council Prize for History. Made a Lord in 1981, Lord Thomas was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne.