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The 20th century and the beginning of the 21st have been chronicled not just in words, as in previous generations, but also in visual detail, captured in photographs. The greatest images of this era are combined in the The Visual History of the Modern World with authoritative text to document our times with immediacy and clarity.Every major event that has had a place in moulding the 20th century and up to the present day is chronicled - the death of a great queen, Victoria, at the beginning of the 20th century and the tragic demise of a beloved princess, Diana, at its end; the civil unrest in the Balkans that led to the Great War and had grave, far-reaching consequences for Yugoslavia in the 1990s; the destruction of the old Imperial order that gave bloody birth to revolutions and civil wars and spawned the reigns of brutal dictators in Germany, Spain, Italy and Russia; the horrific events of September 11, 2001, a defining moment for this new century and the growth of world terrorism; and the technological, scientific and medical advances that transformed every aspect of our lives; the people - politicians, scientists, movie stars, writers - who shaped the way we think, feel and live. In unprecedented and graphic detail, The Visual History of the Modern World is a concise and authoritative overview of this modern age: times of war, peace, prosperity and progress.