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Days That Shook the World

Days That Shook the World

by HugoDavenport (Author)

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 240
 Edition: 1st edition
 Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 02 Oct 2003
ISBN 10: 0563487836
ISBN 13: 9780563487838

Media Reviews
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 .