365 Modern History (PAPERBACK)
UK £10.99,
UK Publication July 2009
ISBN 9781848310698
Paperback
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The third book, now in paperback, in Icon's increasingly admired 365 series, revelling in the highs and lows of the world since the last year of the Second World War.
The world since the end of the Second World War often seems to represent the lighter half of the 20th century. Rapid recovery from the ravages of war; the rise of popular culture; the phenomenal growth in affluence, health and quality of life; the communications revolution in the West at least, the story is a good one.
But the years between 1944 and 2009 those covered in this book are far from being free of strife. They are, sadly, no strangers to famine, disease, violent political and social upheaval, terrorism, discrimination and environmental catastrophe.
18 March 1965: A cosmonaut, and not an astronaut, becomes the first person to conduct a 'space walk'
14 May 1948: The first Jewish state in 2,000 years comes into being
21 September 1995: The 'Hindu Milk Miracle' causes mass hysteria in India
23 October 2001: The iPod is born
26 December 2004: The 'Great Tsunami' kills thousands and wreaks havoc in south-east Asia
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John Farndon is the author of many popular reference books on a wide range of topics, including the best-selling Dorling Kindersley Pocket Encyclopaedia and the Collins Children's Encyclopaedia. He has been short-listed three times for the Aventis Science Book junior prize.
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