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The History of the World: from the Dawn of Humanity to the modern age., London: Quercus, 2013. The Battle for Christendom: The Council of Constance, 1415, and the Struggle to Unite Against Islam, London: Constable, 2008. Great Southern Land: A New History of Australia, London : Allen Lane, 2004.
History of the World [1] is a compendium written by a collection of noted historians. It was edited by William Nassau Weech, M.A., a former Headmaster of Sedbergh School (and a very early aficionado of downhill skiing who also wrote By Ski in Norway, one of the first British accounts of the sport).
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters is not a novel, according to the staider definitions; it possesses no character who rises above the level of a cipher and no plot worth speaking of. It is sharp, funny and brilliant without suggesting that this sharpness, humour and brilliance is sufficient to carry through its purpose to any ...
The Spectator, writing on 25 January 1908 and prior to the release of the second half of the series, notes a handful of shortcomings including a fleeting portrayal of Homer and a questioning of the historicity of Christ, but states that "the general reader...will find here a great treasury of knowledge" and that "they form an extremely interesting shelfful."
Pages in category "World history" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. ... A Little History of the World; Lost Civilizations (book series) M.
Ronald Oliver Felton TD (14 December 1909 – 5 February 1982 [1]), who wrote under the pseudonym Ronald Welch, was a Welsh novelist. He is best known for children's historical fiction. He won the 1956 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British author, for Knight Crusader , the first in his so ...
Starting in 1997 a series of three CEOs took over Boeing and deliberately changed that company into one that resembled Jack Welch's GE. "It started with Harry Stonecipher, who joined the company ...
The book ends with the outcome of the First World War, the Russian famine of 1921, and the League of Nations in 1922. [7] [8] In 1934 Albert Einstein recommended the book for the study of history as a means of interpreting progress in civilisation. [9]