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Martin Gilbert is Britain's leading popular historian. His History of the Twentieth Century is a complete global narrative history of our century. The undisputed master of narrative history, he has an extraordinary ability to muster detailed facts into rich and compelling prose. He retells the events of this, the most horrifying and surprising century that the world has ever experienced, and makes sense of them in a global (and personal) context. As the countries of the world fought and recovered from two World Wars. This single-volume history takes us up to the present day, weaving a rich historical narrative of the multifarious and contradictory events of the last century , which ranges across the bloody events of many wars (from Korea to Bosnia), the post-war resurrection of Europe and the United Nations, the Arms Race, the shooting of JFK, the advent of computerisation, Man's arrival on the moon, Aids and heart transplants, Tiananmen Square and the fall of the Berlin Wall. This is history which makes sense of the most destructive yet most creative century humanity has ever experienced. 'A mammoth undertaking, a miracle of dense compression, demonstrating a sense of proportion sProduct Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780002158701
eBay Product ID (ePID)91697054
Product Key Features
Number of Pages864 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHistory of the 20th Century
Publication Year2001
SubjectHistory
TypeTextbook
AuthorMartin Gilbert
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height240 mm
Item Weight1357 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorMartin Gilbert