Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

Civilizations Rise and Fall #1

Jared Diamond

592 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous slow-paced

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new...

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