The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

This new take on the history of the world has set my head spinning. What's that you say, Peter Frankopan? The Holocaust came about because...of what? Food shortages in Russia? What? And Germany wasn't the only burly aggressor in World War II? Huh? And the center of the world hasn't always been Europe? What?

If Peter Frankopan didn't have such sterling credentials, and if The Silk Roads hadn't been published by such an esteemed company as Knopf, I'd have set this book aside before I got very far into it. It's a revolutionary text, for me, and I must say that it has shifted all my thoughts of history on its axis, with the new equator squarely on the lands of the silk roads.