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1) The century
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"For the past seven years, researchers, reporters, and producers for ABC News have searched the world's archives for the rarest and most stunning photographs and images, consulted eminent twentieth-century historians, and discovered and interviewed hundreds of eyewitnesses and participants in the significant moments of the most eventful one hundred years in human history." "The result is this book, the independent companion volume to the landmark...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A chronological compilation of twentieth-century world events in one volume-from the acclaimed historian and biographer of Winston Churchill. The twentieth century has been one of the most unique in human history. It has seen the rise of some of humanity's most important advances to date, as well as many of its most violent and terrifying wars. This is a condensed version of renowned historian Martin Gilbert's masterful examination of the century's...
8) Great events
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A look at six great events which changed the course of history. Based on the background information, readers are then asked to decide what might happen next.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the bestselling adult version of The Century, offering young Americans a unique look at the past 100 years, via not only archival material but through the eyes of the people who lived through it.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The historian John Lukacs offers a concise history of the twentieth century-its two world wars and cold war, its nations and leaders. The great themes woven through this spirited narrative are inseparable from the author's own intellectual preoccupations: the fading of liberalism, the rise of populism and nationalism, the achievements and dangers of technology, and the continuing democratization of the globe. The historical twentieth century began...
Author
Language
English
Description
Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, and of course Japan) and all of continental Europe. Out of the often vicious power struggles that ensued emerged the modern world as we know it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This captivating book goes where other history books fear to tread: history's military blunders. Often though, more is learned from failure than triumph. Iconic battles covered include the Battle of New Orleans, the Battle of Antietam, The Battle of Little Bighorn, and the Battle of Stalingrad, among many others. Each account focuses on precisely what went wrong, the strategic failings as well as the human ones, in an effort to educate readers on...
19) The face of war
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) was a war correspondent for nearly fifty years. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the wars in Central America in the mid-eighties, her candid reports reflected her feelings for people no matter what their political ideologies, and the openness and vulnerability of her conscience. "I wrote very fast, as I had to," she says, "afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, gestures, which were special...