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A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History
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 doc
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Published
December 1st 2002
by William Morrow & Company
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Should be renamed "A One-Sided, Biased and Selective History of The Twentieth Century".
First of all I listened to the audiobook version of the book, which wasn't bad.
What was bad, was how the book was written. The author seemed to me like an amateur. Its okay with me if you present your own (naturally, biased) view of the world, we are all biased in our own ways, and to different degrees. My problem, is when you become selective of what you write, and what you d...more
First of all I listened to the audiobook version of the book, which wasn't bad.
What was bad, was how the book was written. The author seemed to me like an amateur. Its okay with me if you present your own (naturally, biased) view of the world, we are all biased in our own ways, and to different degrees. My problem, is when you become selective of what you write, and what you d...more
Covering the an entire century in 800 pages necessarily forces a certain selection and brevity. However, read this and you will get a flavor of the last century. It should dispel any romantic notions that it was "the best of times".
This is a magnificent overview of the last fifty years of the twentieth century by one of Britain's leading historians.
The book is presented in a strictly chronological style, with each chapter covering a specific calendar year. This approach allows the reader to appreciate the flow of events in the order they occurred rather than encountering them within the context of the writer's subsequent interpretation. Despite this, the book does not read as if it were a series of news reports...more
The book is presented in a strictly chronological style, with each chapter covering a specific calendar year. This approach allows the reader to appreciate the flow of events in the order they occurred rather than encountering them within the context of the writer's subsequent interpretation. Despite this, the book does not read as if it were a series of news reports...more
not the concise edition, but Vol. 2 of 1,000 pages - I picked out only the European front to get a real sense of the strategy/tactics and place the geography correctly after reading 4 of Alllan Furst's novels.
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This book presents a broad yet concise history from 1900-1933. The first of three books which aim to give scope to the entire twentieth century. It's an ambitious project and I'm sure much can be found in the way of criticism, but it provides invaluable insight and understanding into events of recent history. I found much in here to broaden and deepen my understanding of familiar events, and even more that was completely new to me. I recommend it to anyone with an interest in history, more espec...more
I had to return this to the library before I finished it (or really, before I even got started) - I will definitely be checking it out again.
I thought this book was very interesting. It took me a while to get through it, but it was helpful to go thorugh the histry of the world in chronological order.
Not concise at all!
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Sir Martin John Gilbert is a British historian and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of over eighty books, including works on the Holocaust and Jewish history. Gilbert is a leading historian of the modern world, and is known as the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill.
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