A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace (A Pelican Book)

A lot to take in but demonstrates the complexity of human cultural history and the flux of human interaction. Superb source of political, social and religious information. Great read. Makes you realise the lack of free will involved in human history. We are subject to the whims of abstraction.

this book is overcomplicated and drops random names at random moments. it’s very hard to read.

Cicero once said that a man who does not know what happened in the world before he was born, goes through life like a child. Men since beginning of time have animal emotions which are the same just the toys with which we play changes.It should be read by politicians, students, economist, investors, military people. In fact it should be read by any one and everyone who can read.Read it .....You will love it..

Move over, Herodotus. For today this book is the definitive work of history. No reader or watcher of today's news will have the proper context without a perspective drawn from this book.

This is a work of art! Well researched and written!Very disappointed with the price! £25 for a mass market paperback quality (it got a hardcover but the pages are hair thin).Happy I purchased the knowledge, but the means of delivering it could be better.Shame really