It was Gavrilo Princip a 19-year-old Bosnian Serb who triggered the open conflict of World War I when he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Because the whole of Europe was entangled in defensive alliances it took only a matter of weeks for all the major powers to find themselves at war. This books traces the history of the wars of the 20th century from the bloody, muddy European battlefields of World War I through the global military conflict of World War II and its nuclear aftermath to the subsequent Cold War stand off between west and east, along with the many other significant post-WWII conflicts that have changed the world in the last 100 years.
Contents include World War I, World War II, The Cold War, The Chinese Civil War, Independence and Partition of India, The Chinese Invasion of Tibet, The Suez Crisis, The Turkish Invasion of Cyprus, The Falklands war, The Gulf War, The War on Terror, The Iraq war, future conflicts
