Title: Gilbert delivers just what he promises...
Review: I won't review this book (or series) in detail, but I will say that Martin Gilbert delivers exactly what his title promises: A history, not THE history. No text of this size can possibly promise to cover the entirety of the world's history this century, and so in order to get more than a laundry list of events out of it, I think some sacrifices were rightfully made. Gilbert seems to have chosen a Euro-centric point of view, probably because this is where his expertise lie. And what he has chosen to focus on is very well covered and written. In reading these volumes I have a much greater appreciation of (some of) the events of this century. And when I want to round out this history with a more Asian or African or South American focus, I will do so by reading another author whose expertise lie in those areas.
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