would have been very valuable considering he lived in these centuries
>>18255411wouldn't have been valuable because all he wrote were plain basic stuff or garbage.
The plan was to take "The Story of Civilization" all the way to 1945 but he obviously was too old by that point and died without getting further than Napoleon. He was already 50 when they started the series.
>>18255961the later entries in the series also increasingly relied on his wife to do a lot of the work as he aged