A Short History of the 20th Century by Geoffrey Blainey

Australian Historian Blaine Offers A History Of The Recently Departed Century. This Was A Entury That Opened With High Hopes And Grave Perils And Ended In The Same Fashion. In Between, The Continued Ascendancy And Ending Of European Supremacy, Two World Wars, Rival Totalitarian Ideologies, The Spreadof Democracy, The Withering Of Empires, Mass Movements, And Technologies, Scientific, And Medical Advances Of Lardge Proportions Took Place. Blain Covers This While Exploring Developments Across The World's Landscape. The Largest Focus Is On Europe, Perhaps Naturally, But He Does Discuss Occurrences In The Western Hemisphere, Asia, The Middle East, And Africa, Although The Coverage Of Both Latin American And African Is Quite Brief. Including Key Personalities, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Einstein, Gandhi, Castro, And Gorbachev. A Flaming Sunrise -- Rye-beer And Perfume -- A Tempest Of Change -- The War Of Wars -- Revolt In Petrograd : Peace In Paris -- Utopia And Nightmare -- Old Sultan And Young Turk -- Faster And Faster -- An Italian Drummer -- A World Depression -- The Rise Of Hitler -- A Second World War -- From Pearl Harbor To The Fall Of Berlin -- A Most Secret Weapon -- A Curtain Falls -- Burning Spear And Changing Wind -- Israel And Egypt -- Vessels Of Vengeance -- Explosive Island And Ghostly Galleon -- Climbing The Everests -- The Chef And The Doctor -- A Seesaw Moves -- Thunder And Lightning In Moscow And Warsaw -- The Walls Are Toppling -- Cities, Sports, And Tongues -- Islam's Moon Shines Again -- Retrospect. Geoffrey Blainey. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 333-348) And Index. This 2006 Penguin Hardback is in good condition.

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