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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... April , the Russian Minister of the Interior was assassinated in St Petersburg by one of the students expelled the previous year from Kiev university after anti - government demonstrations . During a student uprising in Moscow ...
... April 20 , during a day of deliberately unchecked violence in Kishinev , forty - three Jews were killed and several hundred Jewish women were raped . When Jewish leaders went to St Petersburg to ask for justice , the Minister ...
... April 1903 , King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia were murdered in their palace in Belgrade , and their naked , mutilated bodies were thrown from the palace window . Also murdered that night were the Prime Minister and the Minister ...
... April 1904 signed the Entente Cordiale , whereby France recognized Britain's predominant position in Egypt , and Britain recognized France's predominant pos- ition in Morocco . In the Sudan , where five years earlier Britain and France ...
... April , the Russian flagship struck a Japanese mine off Port Arthur and sank ; the Russian naval commander - in - chief , forty officers and 750 men were drowned . The Japanese fleet suffered no losses until May , when two Japanese ...
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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 |