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A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich [Repost]

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A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich [Repost]

A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
Yale University Press | October 7, 2008 | English | ISBN: 030014332X | 305 pages | PDF | 8 MB

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and "Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur junge Leser" was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in twenty-five languages across the world. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colourful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science.