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THE STORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 MOMENTS
IT’S HIS STORY, NOT THE STORY
AUTHOR NEIL OLIVER
PUBLISHER BANTAM PRESS
PRICE £25 (APPROX. $34.65)
RELEASE 16 SEPTEMBER
You may have noticed, if you’re a How Works subscriber or a regular reader, that we enjoy putting a list feature in pretty much every issue we make. And the more items in that list that we don’t know about or don’t expect to see, the better.
Historian and TV presenter Neil Oliver’s The Story of the World in 100 Moments is mostly made up of key points in history that we either had no knowledge of, or the very briefest acquaintance with. That’s good: it’s refreshing not having to read about the same stuff in history – turning points in World War II, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, the discovery of the New World in the 15th century – the kind of content we’d think of including if we had put this book together. Instead we get expert insight into moments of world history that slipped under our radar, what Oliver refers to as: “My story of the world… my 100 moments.”