Descent Into Barbarism

From Britain's 'greatest living factual historian' (Paul Johnson, Evening Standard), the second volume of the history of the world in the twentieth century.

Martin Gilbert is Britain's leading popular historian. His three-volume History of the Twentieth Century, of which this is the second, is a complete global narrative history of our century.

Martin Gilbert is the undisputed master of narrative history. He has an extraordinary ability to muster detailed facts into rich and compelling prose.

The first volume ended with Roosevelt as the newly-elected President of the United States and Hitler appointed as Chancellor of Germany. The second volume takes the story on to the end of 1965, with man about to land on the moon and with the two principal defeated states of the Second World War emerging as economic powers.