Flashpoints in History

by Ben Hubbard

Which flashpoint turned the tide of the major battles in history?

What made Winston Churchill more than a politician and Rosa Parks more than just a girl on a bus?

How did beatlemania begin?


FLASHPOINTS : HISTORY seeks to identify and recognize those moments that defines eras, people and events.

With bite-sized overviews, clear timelines and the major historical flashpoints helpfully pulled out, this book offers an accessible history if the twentieth century, covering everything from Hiroshima to Apartheid, the launch of the internet to the panic over Y2K, the birth of the pill to the Wall Street Crash. Details of the major events that have shaped our world today are paired with character profiles of the key player including Nelson Mandela, Edmund Hillary and John F. Kennedy, and each page features quotations and photographs to bring the century to life.

176 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

Ben Hubbard is an accomplished non-fiction author of books for children and adults. He has more than 160 titles to his name and has written on everything from Space, the Samurai and Sharks, to Poison, Pets and the Plantagenets. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and can be found in bookshops, libraries and schools around the world.

Reviews

[Jason Freng · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some interestingly concise timelines and enough info to get you by on the biggest 20th century events from around the world.