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E. H. Gombrichs world history, an international bestseller now available in English for the first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanitys achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand wor...

Set against the ever-changing canvas of science, a grand human story emerges in forty concise chapters of war, grand works of art, and the frailty of humanity.

Set against the ever-changing canvas of science, a grand human story emerges in forty concise chapters of war, grand works of art, and the frailty of humanity.

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success. It is now an international bestseller and available in almost thirty languages across the world. In forty concise chapters, Gomb...