Modern Times A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1990s
by Paul Johnson
Originally published in 1983 and named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times , this bestselling history is now revised and updated and includes a new final chapter. "Truly a distinguished work of history... Modern Times unites historical and critical consciousness. It is far from being a simple chronicle, though a vast wealth of events and personages and historical changes fill it....We can take a great deal of intellectual pleasure in this book." --Robert A. Nisbet, New York Times Book Review
World history: from c 1900 -
RELEASED1992
PUBLISHERPhoenix
LENGTH876
LANGUAGEEN
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Paul Bede Johnson is an English journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at the Jesuit independent school Stonyhurst College, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for and later editing the New Statesman magazine. A prolific writer, he has written over 40 books and contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. His first book, about the Suez War, appeared in 1957. He was successively lead writer, deputy editor and editor of the New Statesman magazine from 1965 to 1970. Source: Wikipedia
Modern Times A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1990s
by Paul Johnson
Originally published in 1983 and named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times , this bestselling history is now revised and updated and includes a new final chapter. "Truly a distinguished work of history... Modern Times unites historical and critical consciousness. It is far from being a simple chronicle, though a vast wealth of events and personages and historical changes fill it....We can take a great deal of intellectual pleasure in this book." --Robert A. Nisbet, New York Times Book Review
World history: from c 1900 -
RELEASED1992
PUBLISHERPhoenix
LENGTH876
LANGUAGEEN
Paul Bede Johnson is an English journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at the Jesuit independent school Stonyhurst College, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for and later editing the New Statesman magazine. A prolific writer, he has written over 40 books and contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. His first book, about the Suez War, appeared in 1957. He was successively lead writer, deputy editor and editor of the New Statesman magazine from 1965 to 1970. Source: Wikipedia
