Perennial Classics Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties, the, (Paperback)

from RobertP

A brilliant work of history. Paul Johnson - even if you do not agree with his worldview - is a great writer, and has a pretty solid command of European certainly, and also world history. He is a ri...

from mhartford

Though Johnson clearly has an axe to grind--his tendencies are libertarian-conservative--this is a solid history of the short 20th century (from the U.S. economic expansion of the '20s to the fall ...

from LisaMaria_C

Paul Johnson is a British journalist, a believing Catholic--and a conservative. That will put some people off--although it's notable I saw more than one review from readers who said in spite of tha...

from RobertP

Paul Johnson is a great historian.

from KirkLowery

A very readable account of the 20th century. I was fascinated by the account of constant warfare between Serbs, Albanians and in the Baltics. Two world wars didn't change much.