A Worldly 'History,' Now in English

The late Sir Ernst Gombrich wrote A Little History of the World in 1936, in German. The book tells the story of human kind from the stone age to the atomic bomb and has been translated into 17 languages. A more popular work for young people, The Story of Art, was published in 1950 and sold 6 million copies for the author. Yet for many years, Little History was not translated into English. Then, before Gombrich died in 2001 -- at the age of 92 -- he began to update and translate the original. This fall, the first English edition of the book was published by Yale University Press. Leonie Gombrich, granddaughter of the author, wrote an introduction to the new edition. She tells Liane Hansen more about her grandfather and his books.