It is a good introductory book to the topic. It is a fairly easy read with no notable bias. The lexicon is helpful. I just cannot help but thinking it is a bit stupid to make a chapter on one country during a specific time span then shift to another country during the same time span and then come back to the former country during the next time span. In the end, it just makes the whole thing more confusing but I noticed most history books on the subject tend to do the same thing.