When I say for everyone so I included: the students! We khâgneux or other historians know how academics are poor writers and how it is tedious and often boring to read their work. Well with Bainville forget that. The style is remarkable conciseness, accuracy, and still manages to maintain a certain level which make this book both a history book, the quality of his thinking and accuracy / scientific objectivity, and a work of literature.
So even the uninitiated will find their account because the whole is very well thought out, very full, very clear. Ideal for amateur historians who may not have neither the time nor the inclination to look at things harder to access. They will be conquered by this one, who truly reads - and I am not the first to say! - Like a novel.
The title seems ambitious. I want to say that given the extent covered by Bainville, the contract is still filled after these 500 pages that we can not see past. It is always a joy reissued, and a chance to grab for all, before it is no longer the case.