1922 – The Year That Changed The World
1922 was a year of great upheaval.
The events that happened then defined the rest of the 20th century and in many cases continue to affect us even today, a full hundred years later.
The Ottoman Empire collapsed after six centuries. The British Empire began to crumble, from Ireland to India.
New states and new polities emerged. The Soviet Union was founded, while Mussolini's Italy became the first fascist state.
Greece was plunged into mourning with the Asia Minor disaster...
Tutankhamen's tomb came to light, the use of insulin caused a revolution in medicine. And in Munich a young demagogue named Adolf Hitler was briefly imprisoned…
Nick Rennison's book brings this landmark year back to life, a year that changed the world.
It gives us an idea of what people's lives were like back then - what they sang, which celebrities they admired, what they feared, what they dreamed of - and at the same time unfolds before us the events that shook their daily lives and laid the foundations for the cosmogony that would follow in the turbulent twentieth century.
