I'm a big fan of the Access to History series of books but this is not one of the better ones that I have read. The simple problem is that the scope of the coverage is too ambitious for 140 pages. The writing style is fine but everything is covered in too little depth, not a problem that I've noticed to the same degree with others in the series that I have read.

That said, there are some very useful tables and flow charts designed to assist with remembering the key points in each chapter. Perhaps I would go as far as recommending this to anyone without the time to read 'The Peacemakers' by Margaret MacMillan and 'The Dark Valley' by Piers Brandon, which provide wonderful coverage of similar material in far greater depth ( )