Cette série de livres explore l'ascension et la chute de l'un des empires les plus redoutables de l'histoire. Elle examine l'ambition, la conquête et l'impact culturel qui ont façonné le monde. Les lecteurs passionnés d'histoire et de récits épiques y découvriront une riche tapisserie d'intrigues et de manœuvres stratégiques. Elle offre un regard captivant sur une ère d'expansion mondiale et son héritage durable.
Tells the story of the hundreds of conquistadors who set sail on the precarious journey across the Atlantic - taking with them wheat, the horse, the guitar and the wheel as well as guns, malaria and slaves - to create an empire that made Spain the envy of the world.
Beginning with the return of the remnants of Magellan's circumnavigation in 1522 and ending with Charles' death in 1558, the author brings to life the periods of the Renaissance, revealing how the Spaniards were able to conquer Guatemala, Yucatan, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru and Chile and why Cabeza de Vaca walked from Florida to Mexico.
'World Without End' is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authority. It tells the story of life in a conquered territory that stretched from Cuba to Peru, and of the final conquests of the greatest empire that the world had then seen since the fall of Rome 1,000 years before.