History's Greatest Hits: Famous Events We Should Know More About
Publisher - Murdoch Books
Author - Joseph Cummins
Binding - Paperback
Pages - 336, 125 photographs
Age - Adult
Size - 24cm x 19cm

Product weight 1000g

Events of Everlasting Impact

The Crusades, Custer's Last Stand, the Charge of the Light Brigade, D-Day - we've all heard of these momentous events, but how much do we really know about them? The ultimate popular history book, History's Greatest hits brings together some of the most famous event s from our past in short, easily digestible chapters.

Author Joseph Cummins recounts each episode with a storyteller's flair and in so doing offers fascinating insights into the minds of the protagonists - from Hannibal to Churchill - as well as new perspectives on conventional history.

History's Greatest Hits is a fascinating read for amateur history buffs, students and anyone else seeking to understand the world we live in today

Contents

The Ancient World 250 BC-500 AD

218 BC Hannibal crosses the Alps
44 BC The Assassination of Julius Caesar
476 AD The Fall of the Roman Empire

The Middle Ages and the Renaissance 1000-1500

1066 The Battle of Hastings
1095-1291 The Crusades
1215 Magna Carta
1347-1349 The Black Death
1415 The Battle of Agincourt
1431 The Execution of Joan of Arc
1478-1530 The Spanish Inquisition
1492 Columbus arrives in America

The Early Modern Era 1500-1900

1588 The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1666 The Great Fire of London
1759 The Battle of Quebec
1776 Washington crosses the Delaware
1789 The storming of the Bastille
1815 The Battle of Waterloo
1845-1849 Irish Potato Famine
1854 The Charge of the Light Brigade
1863 The Gettysburg Address
1876 Custer's Last Stand

A World at War 1900-1950

1915 The Battle of Gallipoli
1916 The Battle of the Somme
1917 The October Revolution
1929 The Wall Street Crash
1940 The Battle of Britain
1941 The Attack on Pearl Harbor
1944 D-Day
1944 The Battle of the Bulge
1945 The Bombing of Hiroshima

The Cold War and Beyond

1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 The Assassination of President Kennedy
1967 The Six-day war
1968 The Tet Offensive
1969 The First Moon Landing
1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall
2001 9/11