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The Twentieth Century
The 20th century wasn’t just two world wars and some old-timey black-and-white photos. It was a chaotic, brutal, and often baffling mess of ideas, empires collapsing, and new powers rising—sometimes in ways nobody saw coming. If you think you know the century because you skimmed a history timeline once, this book might just knock you off your high horse.
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