The Spoils of Time by C. V. Wedgewood

A wonderfully bold and wide-ranging narrative of the world's defining events is being published in paperback for the first time. With illuminating detail, Wedgwood takes the reader on a journey to the origins of man and early cultures across the world from the Americas to Egypt, India, and China, among the Sumerians, the Hittites, the Phoenicians, the Jews...from Alexander to Shih Huang Ti and Muhammad of Ghur through to the Renaissance and Reformation. "Her style is a model of clarity. And, in sheer readability, she is a match for any historian living or dead."--J. H. Plumb, The Sunday Times.