Title: Disappointing
Product review: As a person interested in history, I wondered how it could be crammed into one medium sized volium. After reading about half of it, I found the answer - skip many important facts and topics, run through everything in a shallow manner and you are done.I did not learn anything new or interesting from this book, but felt frustrated and enraged at the superficial treatment history gets here. Sometimes the book sounds like a story for small children - no names, no background to explain historic developments and almost no dates. Even Gombrich's "little history" which was written for children is much betterThe chapter aboout the ancient history of the Jews is based mostly on the Bible, without any reference to archeological or other data. Disgraceful,pretentious inaccurate and boring.
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