The World: A Family History of Humanity – Simon Sebag Montefiore
A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families • From the author of The Romanovs. “Succession meets Game of Thrones.” —The Spectator • “The author brings his cast of dynastic titans, rogues and psychopaths to life…An epic that both entertains and informs.” —The Economist, Best Books of the Year. Around 950,000 years ago, a family of five walked along the beach and left behind the oldest family footprints ever discovered. For award-winning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, these poignant, ...