The husband and wife duo spent over 50 years writing their much-acclaimed 11-volume series The Story of Civilization.
The lessons of history is the distillation of their academic work boiled down to a few essential points. It explains how historic events are driven by several factors including biology, race, morals, religion, economics, government, war, progress, and decline.
This book is essentially the summary of recorded human history in over 120 pages, without flair and fluff -- just pure facts.
