A History of the Twentieth Century

A History of the Twentieth Century

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9780060505943
Untertitel:
The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History
Genre:
Geschichte
Autor:
Martin Gilbert
Herausgeber:
Harpercollins
Auflage:
Perennial.
Anzahl Seiten:
832
Erscheinungsdatum:
17.12.2002
ISBN:
978-0-06-050594-3

Informationen zum Autor Martin Gilbert is Winston Churchill's biographer and the author of eight acclaimed books on the Holocaust. He lives in London. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Autorentext
Martin Gilbert is Winston Churchill's biographer and the author of eight acclaimed books on the Holocaust. He lives in London.

Klappentext
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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