The Mighty Continent. A View of Europe in the Twentieth Century

London England: British Broadcasting Corp/Hutchinson, 1974. Hardback. First Edition. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Slight shelf wear to edges of D/J. Small crease to front D/J. Price clipped to D/J.In thirteen programmes the television series charts the troubled story of Europe from the days of the Habsburgs until the rise of the EEC. it is a miracle of lucid compression, of vivid narrative and of historical perspective. The author wrote and narrated the series, and Peter Ustinov embellished it with comments. In the book the author develops themes which television must cut short, filling in the gaps, submitting the evidence, and giving permanence to one of the most exciting periods in history - seventy-five years which saw two world wars, and many local one, the ending of the age-old imperial dynasties of Austria, Hungary, Germany and Russia, and the break-up of the empires of the other great European nations, the rise of socialism and communism, the League of Nations and the United Nations, the EEC, and many other events which he recalls in this personal account. The book is fully illustrated with contemporary photographs and paintings. Illustrated. 352 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardback.