A Skeptic's History of the World

Juan Eslava Galán, who delighted us with his already mythical History of Spain for Skeptics, now surprises us with an equally agile and entertaining, provocative and didactic history of the world, which, between smiles and outright laughter, will lead us in brief and substantial chapters from the Big Bang that caused the origin of the universe to globalization and the crises of our days. A text not to be missed, in which his usual sarcastic and always provocative style is present, clearing up such "burning" questions as why Cleopatra was irresistible or why Franco remained in power thanks to Stalin.

Juan Eslava Galán, who delighted us with his already mythical History of Spain for Skeptics, now surprises us with an equally agile and entertaining, provocative and didactic history of the world, which, between smiles and outright laughter, will lead us in brief and substantial chapters from the Big Bang that caused the origin of the universe to globalization and the crises of our days. A text not to be missed, in which his usual sarcastic and always provocative style is present, clearing up such "burning" questions as why Cleopatra was irresistible or why Franco remained in power thanks to Stalin.