Download or read book The Collins History of the World in the Twentieth Century written by John Ashley Soames Grenville and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th century has been one of vast and sweeping global change, of communism and fascism, of debt and prosperity, of the United Nations and nationalistic fervour, of mass demonstrations and individual defiance; and also of the aircraft and the submarine, of the conveyor belt and the computer, of miracle cures and new diseases, and of radio and television.