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A History of the World
- Narrated by: Andrew Marr, David Timson
- Length: 26 hrs and 28 mins
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Publisher's Summary
From the earliest civilizations to the 21st century: a global journey through human history, published alongside a landmark BBC One television series.
Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey, Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional epic stories, from classical Greece and Rome to the rise of Napoleon, but surrounds them with less familiar material, from Peru to the Ukraine, China to the Caribbean. He looks at cultures that have failed and vanished, as well as the origins of today’s superpowers, and finds surprising echoes and parallels across vast distances and epochs. This is a book about the great change-makers of history and their times, people such as Cleopatra, Genghis Khan, Galileo, and Mao, but it is also a book about us. For 'The better we understand how rulers lose touch with reality, or why revolutions produce dictators more often than they produce happiness, or why some parts of the world are richer than others, the easier it is to understand our own times.'
Fresh, exciting and vividly listenable, this is popular history at its very best.
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- 07-05-21
a must read for all to understand their history
very educative and attention grabbing narrative ... through enjoyed ! most of all I felt clear on our history after the vague and boring exposure in high school
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- Divya Gupta
- 16-05-21
brilliant !
a very vivid, exhaustive and interesting tale of our human race through thousands our years till 2012 - narrated very elegantly and appealingly
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- Murthy Chaganti
- 03-09-23
Magnificent in scale and coverage
Warning - this book is addictive. As it takes you on a journey across millennia and continents, you get mesmerised. Andrew Marr is a genius storyteller and brilliant rendition makes it a compelling companion.
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- M. Menon
- 20-02-21
Strongly recommend
If you're interested in big-picture history and an aerial view of the all human achievement, don't miss it. Well written, researched and read, it was a pleasure.
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- nandan bharti
- 15-04-21
A book which will certainly make u more humble
We r definately living in one of the best epochs..i realized this after going through the book.
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