A History of the Twentieth Century: 1900-1933, vol 1

Critics heralded the first two volumes A History of the Twentieth Century as masterly (Boston Globe) and deft, illuminating, and fascinating (Henry Kissenger). Now, the final work in Martin Gilbert's magisterial and acclaimed three-volume history brilliantly charts the course of the twentieth century's last five decades. Here are gripping narrative accounts of the wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Bosnia; the postwar reconstruction of Europe; apartheid; the arms race; the moon landing; and the extraordinary advances in medical science. Mao started a cultural revolution, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy were assassinated, and the computer revolution was begun. The result is nothing less than extraordinary. The final volume of Gilbert's work presenting the history of the 20th-century, this text presents an account of the years 1952-1999, which range across many bloody wars, the European Community, the shooting of JFK, space travel, heart transplants and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Written in a narrative style that makes history a compelling subject, this volume describes world history from 1900 to 1933 the year Roosevelt and Hitler came to power From Britain’s ‘greatest living factual historian’ (Paul Johnson, Evening Standard), the first volume of the history of the world in the twentieth century. Vol.1. 1900-1933 v. 2. 1933-1951 v. 3. Challenge to civilization, 1952-1999.