How does /his/ feel about this book?

It's a VERY general overview of world history, which is kind of inevitable when you try to cram 6000 years of human history on a 1000 pages.
It also has was I personally found to be a very annoying structure, in which the author picks a time frame (usually 50-150 years) and then starts jumping around it with no real direction. On the plus side, it's well written and not opiniated.

A rule of thumb about learning in general is that it's better to give yourself an in-depth understanding of a few topics than to have a very shallow and basic understanding of a lot of topics. This book and others like it are basically the antithesis of that.

>>1976122
What about the Lolocaust?

OP here, so what are some books you guys would recommend for someone getting into history?

>>1977387
What parts of history do you want to learn about? Modern? Classical? Somewhere in-between?

>>1977397
Classical.

>>1977397
Ancient Mesopotamia

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What does /his/ think about this book?

also what are must read books regarding US history?

>>1976102
Its interesting to see the world from a Spheniscidaen perspective.

>>1977294
In fact, now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure there's a brief line in the book that mention jews using Holocaust as a political device to justify claiming Israel

Recommendations for modern history guys?