Little World History. Gombrich E.

“The Little World History” of the great historian and art critic Ernst Gombrich is a capacious and concise presentation of the entire history of mankind in forty chapters, covering a period from a stone to an atomic age. Gombrich describes wars and revolutions; great works of art; Scientific breakthroughs and dead ends into which scientists entered. Everything is interested in him, from rock painting to the fall of the Berlin wall, and that’s all, from Confucius to Churchill.