A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World HistoryHarper Collins, 2002 M12 17 - 832 páginas Martin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing technology age, taking us through World War I to the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as president of the United States and Hider as chancellor of Germany. He continues on to document wars in South Africa, China, Ethiopia, Spain, Korea, Vietnam, and Bosnia, as well as apartheid, the arms race, the moon landing, and the beginnings of the computer age, while interspersing the influence of art, literature, music, and religion throughout this vivid work. A rich, textured look at war, celebration, suffering, life, death, and renewal in the century gone by, this volume is nothing less than extraordinary. |
Contenido
| 53 | |
| 80 | |
Aftermath of Armageddon 191925 | 112 |
5 | 117 |
Between Two Storms 192632 | 162 |
Towards the Abyss 193339 | 215 |
Second World War 193945 | 264 |
Recovery and Relapse 194656 | 320 |
Maps | 679 |
Index | 707 |
vii | 726 |
80 | 728 |
112 | 731 |
162 | 743 |
215 | 752 |
264 | 759 |
Hopes Raised Hopes Dashed 195767 | 399 |
Challenges of Modernity 196879 | 468 |
Renewed Expectations 198089 | 543 |
12 | 549 |
Brave New World 199099 | 608 |
320 | 765 |
399 | 767 |
468 | 768 |
608 | 769 |
Términos y frases comunes
Africa agreed agreement aircraft Allied American announced April arms army arrested attack August Austria Austria-Hungary Austrian Berlin Bolshevik bomb bombers Bosnian Serbs Britain British Bulgaria called camps China Chinese civilians Communist Party Congress continued Croat Czech Czechoslovakia days later death December declared defence demanded earlier East elections European February fighting following day forces France French German Gorbachev Hitler hundred Hungarian Hungary independence Indian Israel Israeli Italian January Japanese Jewish Jews July June killed Korea Kuomintang labour land launched leaders March Martin Gilbert military million months Moscow murdered Muslim nationalist Nazi negotiations North November nuclear October officers ordered Palestinian parliament peace Poland police Polish political President Prime Minister prison protest refused Republic rule Russian September Serbia shot soldiers South South Korea South Vietnam Soviet Union Stalin thousand took treaty troops Turkish United Nations Vietcong Vietminh Vietnam Vietnamese vote weeks Western
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Página 268 - You ask, what is our policy ? I will say : It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.
Página 271 - Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Página 455 - Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Página 217 - So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Página 2 - No quarter will be given ; no prisoners will be taken. Let all who fall into your hands be at your mercy. Just as the Huns, a thousand years ago under the leadership of...
Página xiii - Surely the 90 per cent who want to live in peace under law and in accordance with moral standards that have received almost universal acceptance through the centuries, can and must find some way to make their will prevail.
Página 115 - The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.
Página 2 - Just as the Huns, a thousand years ago, under the leadership of Etzel (Attila), gained a reputation, in virtue of which they still live in historical tradition, so may the name of Germany become known in such a manner in China that no Chinaman will ever again even dare to look askance at a German.
Página 348 - The attack upon Korea makes it plain beyond all doubt that communism has passed beyond the use of subversion to conquer independent nations, and will now use armed invasion and war.
Página 347 - If the Communists were permitted to force their way into the Republic of Korea without opposition from the free world, no small nation would have the courage to resist threats and aggression by stronger Communist neighbors.