1st Edition

What Happened Where

By Chris Cook Copyright 1997
    321 Pages
    by Routledge

    321 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1997. This work aims to assemble, within a concise volume, a wide-ranging guide to the places and events that have featured in twentieth-century world history. The book also sets out to provide the background information on the places behind the headlines. Thus, conflicts over territory or disputed boundary claims have been at the origin of many modern wars. Hence this volume provides both teacher and student with concise and informative entries on the many hundreds of places of major historical significance.

    Preface, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations and acronyms, The guide to places and events, Appendix 1: The changing nations of the twentieth century, Appendix 2: Major wars

    Biography

    Cook, Chris