After qualifying in medicine from Oxford, and then becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, the author has enjoyed a varied and rewarding surgical career.
A longstanding interest in history and in teaching medical students has made it clear that an understanding of the past and how advances in medicine and surgery have been achieved makes it easier to follow the rationale for present treatments. This learning process seems as valid for nations, politicians and despots, even individuals, as for medical students and doctors.
Covering the period from when Earth began to the end of the Great War and designed for the general reader, this book aims to give a chronological account of life on Earth. It relates all parts of the world to each other for those whose acquaintance with history has been limited to short periods ...
