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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... launched its first submarine : within ten years , fifty - six had been built . The motor car , also in its infancy , was likewise to transform war , with the evolution within fifteen years of the armoured car and the tank . Another ...
... . The question of the electoral franchise was momentarily over- shadowed in the public mind on February 10 , when King Edward VII launched a new battleship , the Dreadnought , the 32 1905-6 HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History Martin Gilbert. VII launched a new battleship , the Dreadnought , the most powerful and fastest warship then in existence . This new class of battleship constituted a revolution in naval ...
... launched a new breakfast cereal , Kellogg's Corn Flakes . That same year the Coca - Cola Company replaced the cocaine in its popular drink with caffeine . Two technological advances , both of which were to have wide reper- cussions in ...
... launched an attack on Spanish supply lines . The news that reached Spain was inflamed by rumours that exaggerated the scale of the losses . Anti - war demonstrations in Barcelona and Madrid spread to railway stations in other cities ...
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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 |