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I need a book that has concise-but-thorough chronological coverage of events, especially those in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. I want it to be in narrative form with some illustrations--not charts like the HyperHistory website, and not the DK-type books that are mostly pictures with captions. The audience would be high school students who read on a middle school level. What do you have for me? :D

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We supplemented Sonlight 300 (old) with Martin Gilbert's series of books about the 20th cent. This is a more concise, all-in-one by him that I haven't seen, but I think it's based on the books we used. I just used the separate books for the teen decades, the 20s and the 30s. He's British, and easy to read.

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We supplemented Sonlight 300 (old) with Martin Gilbert's series of books about the 20th cent. This is a more concise, all-in-one by him that I haven't seen, but I think it's based on the books we used. I just used the separate books for the teen decades, the 20s and the 30s. He's British, and easy to read.

 

Thank you for the recommendation. I keep looking at SL300 and the spine books do not seem like enough.

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I need a book that has concise-but-thorough chronological coverage of events, especially those in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. I want it to be in narrative form with some illustrations--not charts like the HyperHistory website, and not the DK-type books that are mostly pictures with captions. The audience would be high school students who read on a middle school level. What do you have for me? :D

 

The K12 volume - The Human Odyssey: From Modern Times to Our Contemporary Era

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We supplemented Sonlight 300 (old) with Martin Gilbert's series of books about the 20th cent. This is a more concise, all-in-one by him that I haven't seen, but I think it's based on the books we used. I just used the separate books for the teen decades, the 20s and the 30s. He's British, and easy to read.

 

I was actually looking at this one earlier today. Thanks!

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