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Milestones Of The Twentieth Century : The Events That Shaped Our LivesStock informationGeneral Fields
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Local Description1981. First edition. A very good copy with light wear to the illustrated boards and light sunfading to the spine. Previous owner/bookseller marks to the front pastedown and light age tanning to the edges of the textblock. DescriptionThe age of flight - Eary films (movies) - Early radio - Henry Ford and the car industry - Sigmund Freud - Women's suffrage (Suffragettes) - Panama Canal - World War 1 - Lenin & the Russian Revolution - Roaring twenties - Versailles - Gandhi struggle for freedom in India - Stalin - Alexander Fleming & penicillin - The Great Depression USA - Rise of Hitler - Mao & the Long March - Spanish Civil War - Early television - Chamberlain & Munich - The Second World war - War in the Pacific - Battle of Stalingrad - D-Day - Hiroshima - Birth of computers - Partition of India - Birth of Israel - Hungarian Revolution - Sputnik - The contraceptive pill - DNA & the Nobel Prize - Vietnam War - The Red Guards - The Six Day War in the Middle East - Space exploration & Apollo Two - Chile - African independence; Contain a "Life at the time" section for each era; Mao Zedong - Chaing Kai-shek - Communism m __________________________ |