| Title: |
History of the Twentieth Century (single volume) |
| Publishing data: |
UK (HarperCollins); USA (William Morrow), hardback, 2001; UK, USA, paperback, 2002 |
| Summary: |
The author's reduction of his 3,049-page three-volume work, A History of the Twentieth Century. From the author's introduction: 'Some of humanity's greatest achievements took place in the twentieth century, and some of its worst excesses. It was a century of improvement in the quality of life for millions of people, yet also a century of decline in many parts of the globe.' |