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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samnell" data-source="post: 2695216" data-attributes="member: 130">Ow. That sucks. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Some of those can be pretty decent, though usually it's the more focused ones and not the big survey texts. If you can find it and want really barebones summary stuff to help you integrate other things you read, you can't go wrong with Birdsall Viault's Modern European History. Get the last ~500 years in a paragraph or two per topic. It's about a millimeter deep and reads a lot like a For Dummies book, but a handy companion for when someone makes an off-the-cuff reference to something and doesn't deign to explain it. I originally had it as a required text in high school, AP European History. Found it in a bookstore years later and snapped it up out of nostalgia, but it's one of those great books for getting a loose scaffold to fill in with other works.</blockquote>