From the Bastille to Baghdad The Cartoon History of the World Part 2 is the conclusion (for the moment) of Larry Gonick's award-winning & bestselling annals of humankind presented in graphic novel form Picking up after the American Revolution where Part 1 left off Part 2 opens with the Enlightenment & rolls across Napoleon the fall of the Ottoman Empire World War I & II & all the way to our recent imbroglios in Iraq & Afghanistan The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 2 is a monumental one might say historic achievement at once edifying irreverent & wildly entertaining Terry Jones of Monty Python said of the first volume of this series Obviously one of the great books of all time & modern civilization's most recent act is no less enthralling