Shortest History of .... series

Many titles, 250-300 pages
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08WPZLGDC?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk

Just finished England by James Hawes

China next

How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr sort of touches on a lot of these issues.

It's hard to come up with a tidy "during X period," because you have to backtrack to understand the period before the period you're reading about, too

Thank you!

If you’re up for an audiobook approach, take a look at the Great Courses series. They’re expensive to buy, but I’ve found a bunch to download from the library via Libby.

I really don’t think you will find an enjoyable book that fits the bill here. It’s too big a scope.

I recommend The Rest is History podcast — you can pick which time periods interest you but it’s a good way to get some perspective on different time periods in a digestible way.

Also a quick interesting read that had a surprising amount of British history is the road to little dribbling.

I’ll keep trying to think of some that are light reads and put together would give some perspective.

Ken Follet’s Century Trilogy is a good fiction rec, primarily American, English, and German narratives. Spans the 20th century through the fall of the Berlin Wall. I learned a lot reading it!

In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century is very readable. (Obviously, it covers Europe).

Anonymous wrote:Nonfiction or historical fiction? I mostly have recs for the latter.

Non fiction

Nonfiction or historical fiction? I mostly have recs for the latter.

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Anonymous wrote:Interested in learning about world history and a complete book will be a million pages long to cover all of it. But I am looking for something easy to read and digest and something that covers last 100 years or so.

Of the entire world?

Looking to understand the effects of world war I and II and may be about the rise of communism, cold war and end of cold war, formation of EU and so on. I know there are separate books for each of the topics. I am looking to get a glimpse into last 100 years of history.

Anonymous wrote:Interested in learning about world history and a complete book will be a million pages long to cover all of it. But I am looking for something easy to read and digest and something that covers last 100 years or so.

Of the entire world?

Interested in learning about world history and a complete book will be a million pages long to cover all of it. But I am looking for something easy to read and digest and something that covers last 100 years or so.