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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... June 1 , rejoicing began in the streets and con- tinued through the night . There was also mourning in many homes . More than 6,000 British soldiers had been killed in South Africa . A further 16,000 had died from fever . That year the ...
... June , there were demonstrations by workers in the port cities of Batum on the Black Sea and at Baku on the Caspian . In Baku , 45,000 strikers took to the streets , troops were sent in , and several hundred workers were killed . In ...
... June more than a thousand Chinese were killed when an earthquake created a fissure several miles long , swallowing up both homes and their occu- pants . The next month , in the Canadian province of British Columbia , fire destroyed the ...
... June 22 was followed by a naval review at Spithead , when 167 British warships were assembled as a sign of the power of Britain . But it was a thousand miles to the south that a small naval episode threatened to escalate into a conflict ...
... , but against its recent allies Greece and Serbia . With that attack , on June 30 , the Second Balkan War began . Roumania , which had stayed out of the First Balkan War , decided to enter 68 1912-13 HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
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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 |