twentieth century

Examines some of the most significant events and accomplishments of the twentieth century and features the words of people who recall their childhood experiences as witnesses and participants in those events.

Includes selections from the Prophecies of Nostradamus, in Old Provencal with English translations by E. Cheetham.

A collection of intertwining stories, each with a differnt narrator, which combine to chronicle the major and minor, events, occurrences, developments, of the twentieth century.

Photographs, text, and personal accounts help chronicle the major events of the twentieth century, including advances in the film industry, World War II, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and other major events that helped shape the history of the twentieth century.

Contains approximately five hundred maps, charts, time lines, and line drawings, covering the major events of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Tells the story of several secret endeavors in twentieth-century history involving saving refugees during the Holocaust, plumbing the depths of the sea, and training women to be astronauts; and includes a section on psychic spies.

Continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the horrors of World War II.