"Little World History" by the great historian and art critic Ernst Gombrich is a capacious and concise presentation of the entire history of mankind in forty chapters, covering the period from the Stone Age to the Atomic Age. Gombrich describes wars and revolutions; great works of art; scientific breakthroughs and dead ends that scientists have entered. He is interested in everything from rock art to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and everything from Confucius to Churchill.