本书从历史谜团、世界历史进程、重大历史事件、历史战争、政治领袖和风云人物几个方面来阐述外国历史，尤其注重的是西方历史。本书让读者能对外国历史有重新的认知，并开阔读者的思维，吸收外国的历史文化精髓。(The book expounds the foreign history in such aspects as historical mysteries, course of world history, major historical events, historical wars, political leaders and influential figures, especially focusing on the western history. The book enables readers to have a new understanding of the foreign history, widens their thinking and absorbs the foreign historical and cultural essence of traditional spiritual cultures.)