The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 (Hobsbawm, 1994)
1939 · Resource
Hobsbawm's grand survey of the 20th century from World War I to the fall of the Soviet Union.
On these timelines: Resources: Combined, Popular history books
Around 1939
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)