Fin de siècle

1998 · 0385483279 — What was it like to watch the Wright brothers soar into the sky To hear the first crackling voice aired on the radio To cower in the ghastly trenches of Europe during World War I To lose everything in the stock-market crash of 1929 or experience the birth of rock and roll To watch the Berlin Wall divide East and West and then twenty-eight years later to see it fall under the weight of tens of thousands seeking to taste freedom<br><br>For seven years researchers reporters and producers for ABC News searched the world's archives. These news people looked for the rarest and most stunning photographs. They consulted eminent twentieth-century historians. They interviewed hundreds of eyewitnesses of the significant events of the twentieth century.<br><br>As a result you have available to you this splendid book <i>The Century</i>. This is the independent companion volume to the landmark ABC News television series <i>The Century</i> also featured on The History Channel. This book was written by the late Peter Jennings ABC News Anchor and Todd Brewster Senior Editorial Producer.<br><br>Each chapter is threaded through with fascinating first-person accounts of the great events of the twentieth century. The book is illustrated with over five hundre color and black-and-white photographs reproduced in exquisite depth and clarity. Many of these photographs have never been published before now.<br><br><i>The Century</i> presents history as it was lived as it will be remembered for the next hundred years. Here available to you is a keepsake volume destined to be an essential part of your family library. This book portrays an epic journey through the twentieth century; its heroes are our grandparents our parents ourselves. Doubleday hardcover