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It covers all areas of history and doesnt dwell extensively on any one area a double page on each only brief description of wars

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Covers all countries even though it is published in uk

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This cookiecutter approach can make the events appear to have the same significance and also there is no connection made between them

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Thus the napoleonic wars follows the french revolution twopager treating them as separate occurrences which they by no means are

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The only reason it received a 4 instead of 5 is that the book had scratches on the cover

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Its very heavy so definitely not one to read in bed

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It gives you a foundation on each event and if you want to dive deeper you can branch off into wikipedia or other verbose media on the topic

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Because of this some of the chapters are not an easy read like a novel and will require you to reread paragraphs over again to connect the dots