Collectif, "How It Works Book of Incredible History", 12th Edition

Journey through the ages and celebrate history’s most intriguing customs, traditions and inventions with How It Works Book of Incredible History. Traverse time periods and 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 informative illustrations, history will be 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