What Happened Where
What Happened Where: A Guide to Places and Events in Twentieth-Century History
By Chris Cook and Diccon Bewes
Published by St. Martin's Press, 1997.
This is a 6" X 9" clothbound book of 310 pages including appendices.
It's mainly an alphabetical listing of places, with one or more sentences about what major events happened there in the 20th Century (going on to about a half a page in length at the most, for places like Paris).
Obviously a book of 310 pages with such great breadth can't have much depth, so the authors must have had a very difficult job; a work of many thousands of pages on this topic could still be considered incomplete. Most of the history included is of worldwide significance, relating to international politics. Some economic and social history is also included.
The appendices include a guide to the changing national borders and governments in the 20th century and a summary of major conflicts.
Here is a typical entry:
Drancy (France)
Four miles from Paris, and originally designed as a public housing estate, Drancy assumed the role in the Second World War of an effective concentration centre for Jews to be deported to Auschwitz. Of 74,000 Jews sent from Drancy, including women and children, fewer than 3,000 survived. Drancy was run by the French for French Jews arrested by French police.
By Chris Cook and Diccon Bewes
Published by St. Martin's Press, 1997.
This is a 6" X 9" clothbound book of 310 pages including appendices.
It's mainly an alphabetical listing of places, with one or more sentences about what major events happened there in the 20th Century (going on to about a half a page in length at the most, for places like Paris).
Obviously a book of 310 pages with such great breadth can't have much depth, so the authors must have had a very difficult job; a work of many thousands of pages on this topic could still be considered incomplete. Most of the history included is of worldwide significance, relating to international politics. Some economic and social history is also included.
The appendices include a guide to the changing national borders and governments in the 20th century and a summary of major conflicts.
Here is a typical entry:
Drancy (France)
Four miles from Paris, and originally designed as a public housing estate, Drancy assumed the role in the Second World War of an effective concentration centre for Jews to be deported to Auschwitz. Of 74,000 Jews sent from Drancy, including women and children, fewer than 3,000 survived. Drancy was run by the French for French Jews arrested by French police.