20Th Century Europe

In terms of major events, the 20th century influences nations,
regions, and peoples in profound and all-inclusive ways. It was
a century of earth-shaking, contradictory events great evil,
genocide, and destruction on massive scales on the one hand,
and, at the same time, inventions, discoveries, and political/social
improvements which have improved the lives of billions of people.
Most of the inventors and scientists, and, in too many cases, the
worst tyrants, were Europeans.
The pages within guide the reader on this exciting, often bloody,
and yet hope-filled journey.
Edgar B. Schick, Ph.D.
Arthur Drea has written a compelling and readable primer of the
utmost intellectual value to history students and the general public
alike for a course in European History of the Twentieth Century.
He achieves this desired effect with exactitude and concision,
which match his courses focus on just over one hundred years
of causation leading to the contemporary state of European
society and economy. Indeed, every tributary stream of events of
this social, political, and economic type is seamlessly channeled
into the main course of Dreas explanation and analysis with the
flawless timing that characterizes narrative history at its best.
Edwin L. Hetfield, Jr., Ph.D.