A history of the twentieth century: Volume 1 1900-1933

by Martin Gilbert

Paper Book, 1997

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Available

Barcode

10207

Publication

New York : W. Morrow, c1997-c1999.

Description

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.… (more)

Subjects

History, Modern

Language

English

Physical description

25 cm

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LibraryThing member tony_sturges

A comprehensive history of the first thirty-three years of the Twentieth Century, starting with the intervention of the Great Powers (including Britain, Germany and the United States) in China, and closing with Roosevelt as the newly-elected President of the United States and the inauguration of

Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. The narrative flows, in rich and compelling prose, from continent to continent and country to country, conveying the dramas, struggles and achievements of nations and individuals, as well as chronicling the diseases and natural disasters of the first third of the century, the advance of science and medicine, wars, revolutions and political upheavals

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LibraryThing member jwhenderson

The first volume of a trilogy on twentieth-century world history. It is noteworthy that the century started with a war in progress. The so-called Boer War involved the British to a significant extent. This was an attempt to put down the African Boers' uprising, which was aiming to drive out the

British invaders in South Africa. War was endemic in this third of a century with the "Great War" at its center. The brief respite of the "roaring twenties" is too soon followed by the beginning of the great depression in 1929. 1933 does not bode well for the future with the inauguration of FDR in the United States and the rise of Adolph Hitler in Germany.

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