Highly recommend both as a one time student of the text and now as a teacher.

Get the corresponding workbook and look at the other books in the series: Bible History and Christ and the Americas with their workbooks.

I used this book for school a few years back, and while it was interesting, the author did jump around a lot (for example, one minute she'd be talking about Germany, then all of a sudden she'd go and start talking about Denmark, then go back to Germany). There was also a bit of rambling at times, especially during the war chapters, but all in all it was a good textbook, and I learned so much information from it.