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Whether we know it or not, our world has been shaped by our history, for the past is at once both a record of, and a unifying link for, our common humanity. This book is nothing less than a pithy yet comprehensive guide to everything we need to know about the world's major historical events, from ancient civilisations to the end of the Second World War. Whether interested in the empire of Alexander the Great or the flowering of the Carthaginian Republic and its destruction by Rome, the rise of the Arab caliphates or China's Tang Dynasty, the American Civil War or the emancipation of women, or the rise and fall of fascism and Communism, readers will find the essential facts in this concise, readable and elegantly simple book.
