Editing Guns, Germs, and Steel (section)

== Publication ==
''Guns, Germs, and Steel'' was first published by W. W. Norton in March 1997. It was published in Great Britain with the title ''Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years'' by Vintage in 1998.<ref name="GGASLondon">{{cite book | first=Jared | last=Diamond | title=Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years | location=[[London]] | publisher=Vintage | date=2005 | orig-year=1997 | isbn=0-09-930278-0}}</ref> It was a selection of [[Book of the Month Club]], History Book Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, and Newbridge Book Club.<ref>{{Citation | title = Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | newspaper = Publishers Weekly | date = December 30, 1998 | url = http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-393-03891-0 | access-date = October 7, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131107220457/http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-393-03891-0 | archive-date = November 7, 2013 | url-status = live }}</ref>

In 2003 and 2007, updated English-language editions were released without changing any conclusions.<ref>[http://www.jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel.html ''Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001014243/http://www.jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel.html |date=October 1, 2015 }}. Retrieved September 21, 2015.</ref>

The [[National Geographic Society]] produced a documentary, starring Jared Diamond, based on the book and of the same title, that was broadcast on [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] in July 2005.<ref name=natgeo/><ref name="GGASvideo">{{cite AV media | title=Guns, germs and steel. Part I, Out of Eden. | publisher=National GeographicDigial Motion | location=Solon, Ohio | date=2012 | oclc=817224858}}</ref>