History of the 20th Century by Martin Gilbert
From Britains greatest living factual historian (Paul Johnson, Evening Standard), his magisterial global history of the twentieth century.‘In his great work, the writing is lucid, the pace perfectly judged, the evidence vividly conjuredThe horrors are heightened by a style of almost Confucian reticence, which teaches without didacticism. In Gilbert's vision of history, the vast range never blurs the human scale. He is inspired by a victim of the Japanese brutalisation of Canton in 1937: "Historians may appropriate only a line or two to record this present catastrophe, but it is tremendous to those of us that are in it."' FELIPE FERNÀNDEZ-ARMESTO, Sunday Times
Martin Gilbert was born in London in 1936 and educated at Highgate School and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1962, he became research assistant to Randolph Churchill and, after Randolph’s death, succeeded him as biographer of Sir Winston Churchill.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780006376644 |
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| Title | History of the 20th Century |
| Author | Martin Gilbert |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2002-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 864 |
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