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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... Bulgarians were murdered by local Greeks during 1900. The small , landlocked province was home to Turks , Serbs , Bulgarian Christians , Bulgarian Muslims ( known as Pomaks ) , Roumanians ( known as Vlachs , some of them Greek Orthodox ...
... Bulgarians crossed the border into Macedonia , attacked Turkish army posts , and declared a provisional government . Serb and Greek villages that refused to provide the insurgents with arms and supplies were looted and burnt down . The ...
... Bulgaria took co - ordinated action . On October 5 Bulgaria declared its independence from Turkey , and on the following day - a fateful day for European stability – Austria- Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia - Herzegovina ...
... Bulgarians , two Serbians and three Jews . These constitutional advances , which raised great hopes among the Turkish population , were parallelled by anger that the provinces of Bosnia - Herzegovina and Bulgaria had both been lost ...
... Bulgarian and Greek inhabitants of Mace- donia who refused to give up their firearms were flogged and tortured ; many fled across the borders into neighbouring Bulgaria and Greece . All Bulgarian political clubs in Macedonia were closed ...
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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 |