Millennium Year by Year

by Derrik Mercer

"Vikings sail far west." "Fierce fighting rocks capital of Aztecs." "Fire devastates London." "Horseless carriage frightens the cattle." "Clinton survives impeachment." The Millennium Year by Year... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789446413
• ISBN13: 9780789446411
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 894 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.4" x 11.7"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating and fun way to read about history

This is a great way to look at history, not only allowing adults to remember the most interesting things that happened in any given year of their lives, but also seeing what was happening in different parts of the world in any of the last 1000 years. I love it, my wife loves it, my 15 year-old son loves it, and I am buying one for a friend as a gift.

Most engaging history book!

Each page reads like the each year's top headline news, complete with colorful illustrations and photos that bring to life historical events starting in year 1000 A.D. Very informative, and pulls you in to keep reading about people, places, art, medical and technological breakthroughs, wars, coalitions, etc. Short news articles for easy reading. Any budding student of history will find this to be an excellent resource to learn about world history. Anyone who looks through these pages will gain more appreciation for the contributions, achievements and sacrifices of earlier generations, as well as the extreme conditions in which they lived. One also becomes more aware of how barbaric wars were waged by leaders propelled by power and greed.As we witness events that unfurled following the tragedy of the attack on the World Trade Center's twin towers, this book helps explain what prompted the Bin Ladens of the world to wreak such destruction. Yet, there is a wonderful balance of the beauty of what man has created, evidenced by the near-frenzy of building cathedrals, the incredible works of art one may not even see again, and other examples of the magnificence of the creative and inspired spirit.Excellent addition to any library, or for coffee table book browsing.

So Much Great Information

I would thoroughly recommend this book for anyone. Great read and a lot to read. Will keep you going for a long time, until the next millennium rolls around!

What a great gift!

Here is a great book to commemorate the coming of the millennium...a retro view of the last 1000 years! This book is laid out in a newspaper format...very easy to read, and entertaining. It is a great coffee table book for the person who has everything, or for someone who enjoys looking back to times gone by. This is not just a book you would sit down and read...digesting it in snippets is the best. That also makes it last longer!

Great book and a fun read

This is a fancinating book. Each year in the last 1000 years is presented in color layout that looks like the headlines of a newpaper. It is a wonderful way to enjoy history! I purchased this book for my Dad for Christmas and my husband loved it so much that now I am buying one for him