A Short History of the World by Christopher Lascelles

An excellent place to start to bring your historical knowledge up to scratch. The result is a book that is reassuringly epic in scope but refreshingly short in length. To help readers put events, places and empires into context, the book includes 36 specially commissioned maps to accompany the text. He is the author of Pontifex Maximus: A Short History of the Popes. His first book, A Short History of the World, became a New York Times and Amazon bestseller and was translated into seven languages. While the book covers world history from the Big Bang to the present day, it principally covers key people, events and empires since the dawn of the first civilisations in around 3500 BC. World history and geography document based questions activities, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, inc, 2000, Science, 77 pages. Christopher Lascelles studied modern languages and history at St Andrews University in Scotland. The book does not aim to come up with groundbreaking new theories on why things occurred, but rather gives a broad overview of the generally accepted version of events so that non-historians will feel less ignorant when discussing the past. A Short History of the World aims to fill the big gaps in our historical knowledge with a book that is easy to read and assumes little prior knowledge of past events.

There is an increasing realisation that our knowledge of world history - and how it all fits together - is far from perfect. 'Just what we all wanted but were too scared to ask for: everything that ever happened in one digestible, readable book.' If you think you want an overview of all human history in a shortish dispassionate read, Christopher Lascelles Short History will entertain and inform.

Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England While the book covers world history from the Big Bang to the present day, it principally covers key people, events, and empires since the dawn of the first civilizations in around 3500 BC. 'A clearly written, remarkably comprehensive guide to the greatest story on Earth - man's journey from the earliest times to the modern day. A Short History of the World A clearly written, remarkably comprehensive guide to the greatest story on Earth - mans journey from the earliest times to.

A Short History of the World by Christopher Lascelles