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Days That Shook the World (Hardcover)

by Hugo Davenport (Author)

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: BBC Books (2 Oct 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0563487836
ISBN-13: 978-0563487838
Product Dimensions: 27.6 x 22.4 x 2.4 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 206,391 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Benefiting from its tie-in to a high- profile BBC2 series, this is history at its mostly lively. Each lavishly illustrated chapter includes two key moments that shaped events. Hence, the opening chapter on atomic power zeroes in on the day the bomb destroyed Hiroshima and the Chernobyl meltdown. The rise and fall of communism are highlighted by the Romanov assassinations and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Davenport's background as a history journalist enables him to reduce complex threads to simple, sparky sentences. His text on the monarchy concludes that, for all the Queen's efforts to promote its continuing value, many of her descendants still trail a whiff of her abdicated uncle Edward VIII's "faint but unmistakable air of futility".

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"Days that Shook the World" examines some of the most important days in history, creating a detailed and forensic analysis of 24 hours that changed the world. It covers some of the biggest themes in World history - from the history of flight, to the rise and fall of Communism.

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4.0 out of 5 stars OK BBC publications turn you off,but, 27 Dec 2003

By	Mr. Ewan Mcdonald "macedonia" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I ordered this for a friend's Christmas gift and also bought one for myself. I don't normally go for BBC publications;they're usually a poor relative to the TV series BUT this is an exception. I also expected it to be 20th century based and was perturbed to find a chapter on the Crusades on opening!! But it's a gripping account of major world events;well-written and not at all "dry academic". No doubt historians will mock and jeer but for someone like me who has only an embarrassing vague recollection of these events, it's a well written and illustrated account of ancient and modern cataclysmic events which we all have a duty to learn something about. The summary account of the Civil Rights struggle in the USA is humbling indeed. This is an honest, decent book recounting the efforts of great human beings. If you want the academic stuff, there are whole libraries out there but this points you in the right direction. Buy, read, be inspired!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Days The Shook The World, 27 Sep 2004

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A fascinating book that gives the reader an insight into the events on the days that shook the world such 9/11 and the 1969 moon landing.
A brilliant book with pictures which are in great quality.

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