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A History of the World

Written by: Andrew Marr
Narrated by: Andrew Marr, David Timson
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Fresh, exciting and vividly readable, this is popular history at its very best.

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, political journalist 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.

A History of the World 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.’

©2012 Andrew Marr (P)2012 Macmillan Digital Audio Civilisation World
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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.

Strongly recommend

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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.

Magnificent in scale and coverage

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We r definately living in one of the best epochs..i realized this after going through the book.

A book which will certainly make u more humble

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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

a must read for all to understand their history

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a very vivid, exhaustive and interesting tale of our human race through thousands our years till 2012 - narrated very elegantly and appealingly

brilliant !

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