Dimensions
182 x 239 x 65mm
The history reference book of the decade: nothing less than a history of the world from the building of the ziggurats to the toppling of Saddam - told via the exciting medium of 9,000 chronologically organized quotations.
This book is a unique and original collection of quotations as well as an ambitious and wide-ranging work of popular history. The quotations, which cover the key moments, movements and personalities of world history, deliver a mix of observation, eye-witness record, biographical judgement, and retrospective "comment" by historians and others, thereby bringing historical events alive in a from of snapshot - as well as offering reflection on and analysis of those events.
The mix is a rich and eclectic one: alongside quotations from such weighty historical documents as the ancient Sumerian king list and the US constitution are first-hand observations of famous events from Thermopylae to Tiananmen Square and from Gettysburg to Guernica, witty - and not always flattering - descriptions of personalities from Lincoln to Lenin and from Clemenceau to Clinton, and reflections on historical events from writers, poets and philosophers from Herodotus to Hemingway.
Simultaneously a work of meticulously researched historical reference and an unputdownable entertainment offering rich pickings for the browser, History in Quotations gives the reader a front-row seat at the unfolding drama of 5,000 years of world history.
