History : A Little History of the World Description

In 1935, accompanying a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a work, the 26-year-old ernst gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the scheme 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 characterizes the story of someone from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In in the middle of emerges a …