FLASHPOINTS IN HISTORY
Description
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 IN HISTORY seeks to identify and recognise those moments that defined eras, people and events. With bite-sized overviews, clear timelines and the major historical flashpoints helpfully pulled out, this book offers an accessible history of 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 players including Nelson Mandela, Edmund Hillary and John F. Kennedy, and each page features quotations and photographs to bring the century to life.