A Short History Of The World By Christopher LascellesThere is an increasing realisation that our knowledge of world history and how it all fits together is far from perfect. A Short History of the World aims to fill the big gaps in our historical knowledge with a book that is easy to read and assumes little prior knowledge of past events. The book does not aim to come up with groundbreaking new theories on why things occurred, but rather gives a broad overview of the generally accepted version of events