This book chronicles key events from 1900 to the present day in a unique storyboard style. Each story unfolds step-by-step, using sequences of contemporary photographs to reveal the triumphs and tragedies that shaped the modern world. From the horrors of world wars to the triumph of civil rights, from the birth of flight to the digital revolution, the last 100 years have brought seismic change to every country and every aspect of our lives.
Author
Richard James Overy is a British historian who has published extensively on the history of World War II and the Third Reich. Educated at Caius College, Cambridge and awarded a research fellowship at Churchill College, Professor Overy taught history at Cambridge from 1972 to 1979, as a fellow of Queens' College and from 1976 as a university assistant lecturer. In 1980 he moved to King's College London, where he became professor of modern history in 1994. He was appointed to a professorship at the University of Exeter in 2004. His work on World War II has been praised as "highly effective in the ruthless dispelling of myths" (A. J. P. Taylor), "original and important" (New York Review of Books) and "at the cutting edge" (Times Literary Supplement.)[
