Book description
This new book from celebrated historian Geoffrey Blainey takes us on an
incredible global journey through a tempestuous hundred years. His eye
for detail and evocative style bring to vivid life many of the events
that marked the 20th century: two world wars, the rise and fall of
communist states, the worst economic slump in the world's history, the
decline of European monarchies and empires, the ascent of the first
female prime ministers, the resurgence of Asia, and the exploration of
outer space. Yet it is not only through such grand markers that we come
to know and understand our history. As ever, Blainey brings the past
alive by recording the minutiae of daily life - nine-year-old mothers
with puny babies, the whiff of chaff and manure, the bustle of crowded
cities. It brilliantly evokes the excitement of the times, the triumphs
and the tragedies of perhaps the most significant century of all.
