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
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)