• The Spanish Civil War (1961); 2nd Revised edition (1977); 4th Revised edition (2003)
• Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom (1971)and with revised editions (1998) and (2002)
• Europe: the Radical Challenge (1973)
• An Unfinished History of the World (1979) published in USA as A History of the World and as the original title in London by Hamish Hamilton (in 1979) and with revised editions (1981 and 1982).
• Armed Truce (1986)
• Ever Closer Union (1991)
• Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés and the Fall of Old Mexico (1994)
• World History, The Story of Mankind from Prehistory to the Present (1996)
• The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440–1870 (1997)
• Rivers of Gold (2003). Deel van trilogie over Spaanse Rijk.
• Beaumarchais in Seville (2006) ISBN 9780300121032
• The World's Game
• The Oxygen Age
• The Suez Affair relates to the Suez Crisis of 1956
• Europe: The Radical Challenge: Goya's 'The Third of May' 1808
• The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V (2010) Deel van trilogie over Spaanse rijk.
• The Golden Empire: Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America (2011) Deel van trilogie over Spaanse rijk.

Hij mag niet worden verward met W. Hugh Thomas, de auteur van een omstreden theorie over nazikopstuk Rudolf Hess.