Little history of the world. E. H. Gombrich. 2008.

 To attempt a history of the world for younger readers. In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers.

In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the Stone Agento the atomic bomb. In between emerges amcolourful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spreads and limitations of science. This is amtexgndominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind’s experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity’s achievements and an acute witness to its frailties.