Excerpt from The Book of History, Vol. 1 of 12: A History of All Nations From the Earliest Times to the Present; With Over 8000 Illustrations; Man and the Universe And if you could now tell your children all this enchanting his tory, and if you could put into the hands of your growing boys and girls a work in which the entire narrative is contained, down to the very last word of modern knowledge and discovery, is there any richer reward which you could offer them? Could years of schooling do any more for them? The Story of the World! What a vision it summons! Races, kingdoms, civilisations that were once rich and powerful, holding the centre of the world's stage, disappearing for ever; empires crumbling into dust; fierce hordes of barbaric invaders coming down upon and taking possession of the fairest fields of Europe and even the treas ures of Egypt; romantic and mighty figures springing into view Alexander, Caesar, Attila, Columbus, Pizzaro, Peter the Great, King Arthur, Bruce, Frederick the Great, Bismarck, Washington, Napo leon, Lincoln hundreds of them, making the pages of history glow with stirring tales, daring deeds, far-reaching victories, great humanbattle in the Unite n side? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.