The Times Complete History of the World Hardcover – International Edition, October 22, 2015

bought for very smart 10 year old nephew. I have an old Times Atlas which I use often when reading history and this one is up-t-date and has a lot more info in it. My nephew was first impressed by how big and heavy it was. He reads all the time and is delighted with this book. Recommended to a friend to buy for her husband who is taking history courses during his retirement from medical career. Good for all ages. A very good price for what you get!

Amazing book, but as I was unaware about it shipping from the UK, and have never ordered overseas before I was unaware of the fee I would have to pay for Customs, and I was uninformed when I ordered it, so that didn't make me happy. But the book itself is a work of art, and I love it.

The maps are nice, but the authors writing is concise, he doesn't explain the history to a person who is not familiar with it.

Excellent chronological history of the world.

Purchased as a birthday gift for my husband. Excellent shipping. The book came from the UK to the US intact. My husband cannot put this book down. My kids are enjoying it as well. Great compilation.

The best book of History in the World...Have all the steps of History you need

Overall the book covers a lot of ground, more than most atlases, and especially postwar. Mostly an atlas, the history part is necessarily sketchy, but that's less understandable for WWI & WW2. There's not even a graph comparing national economic sizes for the war (or for any other time, aside from the U.S. Civil War). No graph shows the growth of the world economy or population either, an odd omission. You'd think the subject merited a lot more than a graph.Medieval/Early Modern times seem well enough covered, for Europe. But the Muslim Indian Ocean trade easily dominated the world economy. The Chinese also shipped enormous quantities of ceramics and other goods overseas. Not just printing, paper and fireworks, but everyday things like iron moldboard plows, seed drills, horse collars and other items originated in China hundreds or a thousand years before Europe. Topping it off was the amazing semi-industrial economic growth of the Song dynasty, ended by the Mongols. All this gets little to no mention.In the section discussing the origins of agriculture, it's a muddle where farming began independently, nor is New Guinea even mentioned (but then it was unknown when the author's obsolete map on the subject was first drawn up, decades ago). The text fails to mention recent genetic evidence of migration of populations outwards from these centers, perhaps because it's controversial among some nationalists and because some historians tend to dismiss it (not geneticists, just historians). See David Reich, WHO WE ARE AND HOW WE GOT HERE. The later spread of the Bantu and Polynesian peoples is discussed and mapped, but the Indo-European expansion is barely mentioned aside from a short paragraph apparently written by an Indian nationalist. They might have said something about the east-to-west spread of the Turkish languages across central Asia as well, but maybe that also would offend some nationalities.These gaps in the narrative seem typical of history as it was written 40 or 50 years ago, when I was young.....or should I say, when the contributors to this volume were young. Still, it is a highly condensed history, and most readers will appreciate it for what it is.

Great resource for any history buff.