A Thousand Years of History Written by Those Who Were There
'Millennium Eyewitness' is an extraordinary collection of eyewitness reports which takes us on a compelling chronological tour of world history, addressing a host of topics from war and peace to birth, death and marriage; from great disasters to women's issues; from artists, writers and composers to social conditions. Beginning with the Vikings' voyage to North America in 1000, and finishing with accounts of major occurrences in today's modern world, the reader discovers what "history" was really like.