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20th Century Day By Day: The Ultimate Record of Our Times

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A fascinating look back at the history of the past 100 years! Including interesting images and photographs, as well as usefull links to allow the reader to follow the different events of the same topic through the pages of the book.

This is an excellent resource book. It will provide one with endless material for research projects. Its great for chronologing events for someone's birthday or anniversary. It is also great for teachers and triva buffs.

There is data for each day with special highlights for each month. A great conversation piece for your coffee table.

I was looking for a book that summarized World history during the 20th century and this is the one I chose to buy. I was more than happy with my copy. It is easy to look up specific events, and great for general browsing. I only had two complaints - one, that there was MORE detail in it (although that would have been very hard for a single volume!), and two, it didn't come with the CD that was made to go with it.

Cor, blimey! You won't be disappointed with this one. So many pages of so many stories, taken from the headlines as they were that day. It's almost like being there, be it 15, or 50 years ago. If you want to see how the print media saw the headlines as they were written then, this is the book for you.

What can I say? The book is an incredible collection of every notable historical event in the last 100 years.

The BEST part, to me, is the "chain reference" feature. When you get to the bottom of an article (about, say, the completion of the Hindenburg), there is a small date in italics at the end which points you to the next article concerning the Hindenburg. This is OUTSTANDING for following a chain of events through history.

GREAT reading for knowledge or leisure!

I own the first printing of this book from 1987 and can't tell you the number of times I've looked up something. It gives detailed accounts by day and date of events happening on that day so you can follow an event almost as if you are reading about it in a newspaper as it is happening. I recently read Ken Follett's book "Fall of Giants" that takes place about the time of WW I. As I read about events in his book I could cross reference them with "Chronicle of the Twentieth Century" to get a deeper insight into what was going on. My children have used it for research and I have used it for College classes. I have retired from the computer field so I am very familiar with computer searches, but some reference books are just so good and easy to use they are just worth having. This is one of them.

I've been reading this book since it was called the Chronicles in the early 1990's. I purposely waited till the new millennium because I wanted it to cover every single day (or month, to be precise) of the 20th Century, before actually making that final purchase decision.

Well, I almost bought the book yesterday. After flipping through its colourful and information-packed pages as one last check, it seemed to me that the coverage of the book is biased towards news and events in USA. Something really obvious is the treatment on sports - for example, the authors made a big deal out of the Superbowl (the final of American football league), a sport only played and mostly watched by Americans. On every first page of each year (January), there's a photo and news article on the Superbowl. Seems very funny to me, this event is only played annually where as the FIFA World Cup ("soccer" to Americans & Australians) held every 4 years (involving all the nations worldwide, with 2 years of pre-qualifying) doesn't get similar coverage like the Summer Olympics where one whole centre-spread is dedicated to all the results.

Come on! Football (or soccer) is a world game, it's like a "religion" to some - I think it should deserve more than just a line or two on the side bar. Where do you think all those great legends like Pele, Charlton, Beckenbauer, Maradona, Zidane, etc made their names, if not at the FIFA World Cup? A photo showing the winning nation holding the trophy aloft in the Final won't be too much to ask, I presume. Don't tell me an event as significant and profound as the World Cup (only second to the Olympics), watched and played by billions of people around the globe, should just be "passed over" in world history!

This is a wonderful resource if one wants to delve into the history of the 20th century. It really is the first century which can well be captured in photographs. This book has done just that.

The last century is a rapidly and dramatically changing time the world had never seen before. This book brings the history to the readers in probably the vividest fashion. You can call it a picture book -- it contains thousands of valuable historic pictures. However, this doesn't mean it is not serious. In this book, all the major events in the past century are presented in a news report style. Just like you read news to understand what is happening in today's world, you get a colorful and detailed picture of the history through reading the old "news". I fully recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the history of the 20th century.

This book is a great source of info and is filled with tons of interesting facts. We had the previous book that went to 1995 so this just compliments it as it goes into 2000. Our son loves to look through the book reading the day-to-day facts and he and his dad challenge each other with who knows what about what. A great buy and great book.