Book of Incredible History (12th Edition)

In this new edition we journey through the ages and celebrate history’s most intriguing customs, traditions and inventions – ones which changed the world forever. Not only will you traverse time periods, you will tour time zones via our eclectic range of subjects: the ancient world, iconic buildings and landmarks, weapons and warfare, masterful inventions, influential visionaries and prehistoric predators. Packed with fascinating facts and figures accompanied by gorgeous photographs, diagrams and illustrations, turn the page and be inspired as history is brought to life before your eyes.

Inside you'll discover…
Mesopotamia and the birth of civilisation
How Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii
The genius of ancient Greece
Chinese junk ships
Who were the Celts?
The Terracotta Army
10 wonders of the ancient world
Inside a Japanese castle
The Fogong Temple Pagoda
The Washington Monument
Windmills
Edinburgh Castle
The history of Central Park
Milan Cathedral
How was the Sistine Chapel's ceiling painted?
The Globe Theatre
Brooklyn Bridge
What went wrong at Chernobyl?
History's deadliest warriors
Spies through the ages
The Siege of Tyre
Brutal battering rams
Vickers-Maxim gun
Meet the musketeers
Inside the Manhattan Project
Sikorsky MH-60 Blackhawk
Gruesome inventions
Medieval writing equipment
The first hearing aids
How blue jeans were made
The Colossus computer
Rack-and-pinion railways
Accidental discoveries
The Antikythera mechanism
The corvus
Automatic doors of the ancient world
Prehistoric painting
Record-breaking royals
Leonardo da Vinci
Michael Faraday
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Charles Darwin
The Wright brothers
Guglielmo Marconi
Albert Einstein
Peter Higgs
Last days of the dinosaurs
Fossils
The Ice Age
Prehistoric monsters