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Title: Not To Be Taken Seriously
Review: If your planning on passing a history exam, bypass this book and pickup Birdsall Vault's "Modern European History." What Libbon did was take a serious historical topic and gum it up and whip it up into what amounts to a microwave meal. Yeah it'll fill you up with something, but you won't remember any of it later. If you're not historically inclined and want something light hearted to reat, then maybe Libbon is the ticket, if you can get past the middle school level writing he employs. Although I know many students in my classes who would benefit from this reading. Then again they are also the type to not pick up the required textbook. If your looking for the highlights, Libbon has it, but he won't answer the why? And remember "why?" is the most important question a historian (and a professor) will ask.
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