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A Short History of the World
- Narrated by: Guy Bethell
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Publisher's Summary
There is an increasing realization that our knowledge of world history - and how it all fits together - is far from perfect. Here, Christopher Lascelles aims to fill the big gaps in our historical knowledge with a book that is easy to follow and assumes little prior knowledge of past events. He doesn't 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 nonhistorians will feel less ignorant when discussing the past.
While this book explores 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 and around 3500 BC. Epic in scope but refreshingly concise, A Short History of the World is an excellent place to start to bring your historical knowledge up to scratch.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-12-2023
Easy to listen to summary
It does what it says on the tin, a summary of world history. Easy to listen to and well narrated.
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- Saeid
- 15-02-2022
Loved it
Fantastic source to learn about how history of different countries are related. If you want to have a big picture of the historical events and how they fit together, read this book.
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- Mark Melbourne
- 21-03-2023
Great recap of world history
It doesn’t intend to be the most detailed account of world history but I found it really useful as a recap for more in-depth but much longer books like Andrew mars world history. This book is great to listen to afterwards to pull it all together in a more concise way.
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