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. |
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... Africa and in Asia . In South Africa , the Boer War was entering its eleventh week , the Boers , in their two independent republics , the Transvaal and the Orange Free State , having taken on the might of the British Empire in ...
... Africa the British conquest of the two Boer republics was almost complete , but Boer guerrilla fighters continued to evade capture , fought on , and refused to surrender . In an attempt to force the guerrillas to give up , the British ...
... Africa . ' The government instituted improvements and the death rate fell , but 28,000 Boer women and children died in the camps , as did 50,000 Africans . Britain clashed with Turkey in 1901 , when the Turkish Sultan tried to extend ...
... Africa it was the tactics of guerrilla fighting that proved impossible for even the most disci- plined army to master . The guerrilla forces could melt away into the undergrowth , forest and jungle as soon as they made their strike ...
... Africa , despite overwhelming British numerical strength , the Boers refused to give up their struggle , and in a raid on Christmas Day 1901 attacked a British army camp , killing six officers and fifty men . The British army erected ...
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 |