"From the Bastille to Baghdad," The Cartoon History of the World Part 2 is the conclusion (for the moment) of Larry Gonick's award-winning and bestselling annals of humankind presented in graphic novel form. Picking up after the American Revolution, where Part 1 left off, Part 2 opens with the Enlightenment and rolls across Napoleon, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, World War I and II, and all the way to our recent imbroglios in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 2 is a monumental, one might say "historic" achievement, at once edifying, irreverent, and wildly entertaining. Terry Jones of Monty Python said of the first volume of this series, "Obviously one of the great books of all time." And modern civilization's most recent act is no less enthralling.--Jeffrey Brown, author of Clumsy and Funny Misshapen Body

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 10/06/2009
ISBN: 9780060760083
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.28h x 7.32w x 0.72d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/12/2009 pg. 37
Booklist 10/15/2009 pg. 32
School Library Journal 11/01/2009 pg. 143
Library Journal 01/15/2010 pg. 81