Mastering Modern World History (Norman Lowe)

This book is really a precious asset for History students. The notes and information is chronological put together. The information is condensed but still very informative and enough for your exam revisions (a potential method that helps you to avoid cramping pages after pages of notes when revising). Everything in the route 2 syllabus is in here (it probably covers the other route too but since I only took route 2, that's all I know). I was pretty amazed at how the author could squeeze in everything about Mao that I need to know for my syllabus into less than 20 pages.