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Title: Unreadable, Obtuse
Review: I bought this book to learn about World History, in order to comprehend todays world a bit better. Last night I gave up. I made it to page 429. I scanned ahead to WWII to see if it would improve. It did not. I am 62, and have an advanced degree. The reading is just incomprehensible. As others have stated you have to read some paragraphs several times to understand what the author is trying to say. It is obtuse to the nth degree. An example: he uses the words "Anatolia" and "Levant" without defining them anywhere in the entire book. I learned more from looking up these words online and reading about them in a miniscule fraction of the time I've spent reading the book. The maps are atrocious. All in grayscale and extremely difficult to tell one gray shade from another. The text on most of the maps is unreadable. I do not recommend this book.
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