Makers Of History: Elizabeth Floyd and Geoffrey Hindle

This book covers the entire history of the world from ancient times to the present day. It focuses on famous personalities in a new and fascinating way. Two pages are devoted to each person. This enables the reader to learn about world history through biographies. A fascinating series of princes and princesses, generals and statesmen, revolutionaries and religious leaders. It begins with men who ruled the Old World. Then follows the period of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Via the two great revolutions - the American and the French - we come to our own turbulent century.  Colour illustrations.