Books Carlton: History of the Modern World [2012] hardback ZCRIT with its huge beachfront windows

with its huge beachfront windows and only a short walk to the glistening water

their embryos are mixed up and each woman gives birth to the wrong child

and being kind to others

she knows that without Hercule Poirot's help

Books Carlton: History of the Modern World [2012] hardback ZCRIT with its huge beachfront windowsThis is a comprehensive illustrated history of the world, from 1900 to the present day. The modern era, since the start of the twentieth century, is unique in human history for having 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 History of the Modern World", with authoritative text to document our times with immediacy and clarity.