History

With bite-sized overviews, clear timelines and the major historical flashpoints helpfully pulled out, this book offers an accesible history of the twentieth century, covering everything from Hiroshima to Aparthied, 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 shapes our world today are paired with character profiles of the key palyers including Nelson Mandela, Edmund Hillary and John F. Kennedy and each page feature quotatios and photographs to bring the century to life.