Review:
splendid, edited by two distinguished historians who have assembled a team of over 20 scholars outstanding in their comprehensive precision and clarity ... this book is a solid, readable and reliable guide to the past century. Most readers will be pleased, and often surprised, by the skill with which its complex events have been set in their context. (David Killingray, Third Way)
edited by Michael Howard and Wm Roger Louis who cram this enormous task into 520 readable but sometimes breathless pages to sum up the major events and trends of the 20th century (Bob Williams, Beverley Guardian & Citizen)
Lots of full colour and black and white illustrations plus a detailed chronology make this book an interesting and entertaining read. (Bob Williams, Driffield Post)
if you need to research some aspect of this fast-ebbing century you will find clarity, clear thinking and acutely intelligent analysis in this book. (Lynne Mortimer, Ipswich Evening Star)
possibly the two men in the English-speaking world best qualified to edit such a compilation ... this is pre-eminently a book for the general reader... They write with such style and panache as well as obvious mastery of their subjects, and one reads them as much for pleasure as for instruction. ... This is a book to be heartily recommended./Philip Ziegler/The Daily Telegraph 12/12/98
Refreshing. / New Scientist/ Saturday 9/01/99
It's an impressive survey, deftly handled and wise in its judgements. Trevor Royle/Scotland on Sunday/Sunday 6/12/98
makes other denizens of the depot look like slowcoaches. ... The editors, of both irresistible persuasiveness and prestige, have secured, in most cases, the best-qualified contributors in the world. ... Most of the regional and chronological chapters are composed by masters of summation. ... This is a small book but a big achievement: a model of ambition without pretension, of compression without compromises./Felipe Fernandez-Armesto/The Times /7/01/99
About the Author:
Michael Howard was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford before becoming Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. His books include War in European History (OUP, 1976), Clausewitz (OUP, 1983), and The Lessons of History (OUP, 1991). Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin and an Associate Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He is Editor-in-Chief of the 5-volume Oxford History of the British Empire, and author of Imperialism at Bay (Clarendon Press, 1977), The British Empire in the Middle East (Clarendon Press, 1984), and Churchill (OUP, 1993).
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