classroom and observed that the integrity of history was threatened. Personal life Thomas was married to Hon. Vanessa Jebb, a painter and daughter of Gladwyn Jebb, the first Acting United Nations Secretary-General and British Ambassador to France. They had three children: Inigo, Isambard and Isabella. Awards Thomas won the Somerset Maugham Award (1962), the Nonino Prize (2009), the Boccaccio Prize (2009), the Gabarrón Prize (2008) and the Calvo Serer Prize (2009). The French Government appointed him Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2008. Thomas also received the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic from Spain, as well as the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, the Joaquín Romero Murube Prize in Seville (2013) and the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (2014). Works Disarmament – the way ahead Fabian Society (1957). The Spanish Civil War (1961); Penguin Books Ltd (1968); 2nd revised edition (1977); 4th revised edition (2003). A new revised edition in 2011 commemorated the book's reaching 50 consecutive years in print; it was published in 15 languages. online Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom (1971); revised editions (1998), (2002), (2010). online Europe: the Radical Challenge (1973). John Strachey (1973). online An Unfinished History of the World (1979); published in the United States as A History of the World, then as World History (1998); and under the original title in London (by Hamish Hamilton) in 1979, and with revised editions in 1981 and 1982. online edition The revolution on balance (1983), Washington, DC; Cuban American National Foundation 1983 (CANF pamphlet #5). online Armed Truce (1986). A history of the beginning of the Cold War. online Ever Closer Union (1991). The conquest of Mexico (1993); published in the United States as Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés and the Fall of Old Mexico. online The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440–1870 (1997); Simon & Schuster. online Who Is Who of the Conquistadors (2000). A study of those who fought for Cortés. Rivers of Gold (2003); the first book in a trilogy about the Spanish Empire. online Beaumarchais in Seville (2006); . Eduardo Barreiros and the Recovery of Spain (2009); a biography of Eduardo Barreiros. The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V (2010); the second book in a trilogy about the Spanish Empire. Published in the United States as The Golden Empire: Spain, Charles V, and