Guns, Germs and Steel

Monumental and monumentally good

William Leith, 4 stars, Scotsman

A book of big questions, and big answers

Yuval Noah Harari, Geographical

This is the book that turned me from a historian of medieval warfare into a student of humankind

Yuval Noah Harari, Week

A book of big questions, and big answers

Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens

A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past

Nature

Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible

Sunday Telegraph

A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale

Observer

The most absorbing account on offer of the emergence of a world divided between have and have-nots... Never before put together so coherently, with such a combination of expertise, charm and compassion

The Times

Diamond's sideways-on view of human development may well establish its author as one of the very few scientists to have changed the way we think about history

Sunday Telegraph

One of the best books I've reviewed this year.

Lucille Turner, Bookmunch

Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible

Sunday Telegraph

Diamond's sideways-on view of human development may well establish its author as one of the very few scientists to have changed the way we think about history

Sunday Telegraph

A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past

Nature

The most absorbing account on offer of the emergence of a world divided between have and have-nots... Never before put together so coherently, with such a combination of expertise, charm and compassion

The Times

A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale

Observer

Monumental and monumentally good

William Leith, 4 stars, Scotsman

A book of big questions, and big answers

Yuval Noah Harari, Geographical

This is the book that turned me from a historian of medieval warfare into a student of humankind

Yuval Noah Harari, Week

A book of big questions, and big answers

Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens

A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past

Nature

Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible

Sunday Telegraph

A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale

Observer

The most absorbing account on offer of the emergence of a world divided between have and have-nots... Never before put together so coherently, with such a combination of expertise, charm and compassion

The Times

Diamond's sideways-on view of human development may well establish its author as one of the very few scientists to have changed the way we think about history

Sunday Telegraph