Which flashpoint turned the tide of the major battles in history?
What made Winston Churchill more than a politician and Rosa Parks more than just a girl on a bus?
How did beatlemania begin?
FLASHPOINTS : HISTORY seeks to identify and recognize those moments that defines eras, people and events.
With bite-sized overviews, clear timelines and the major historical flashpoints helpfully pulled out, this book offers an accessible history if the twentieth century, covering everything from Hiroshima to Apartheid, the launch of the internet to the panic over Y2K, the birth of the pill to the Wall Street Crash. Details of the major events that have shaped our world today are paired with character profiles of the key player including Nelson Mandela, Edmund Hillary and John F. Kennedy, and each page features quotations and photographs to bring the century to life.
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