Facts about the 20th CenturyThis reference combines the features of a chronology, encyclopaedia, and almanac. It covers not just trivia but essentials, not just the familiar but also the little-known, not just the local but the global. ""It is not a record of any one country's 20th century, but of every country's, and of the great worldwide events and trends that affected them all"", promises the introduction. |
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