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1968 : the year that rocked the world / Mark Kurlansky.

By: Kurlansky, MarkMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London : Vintage, 2005Description: xvii, 441 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0099429624 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D | History, Modern -- 1945-1989 | Radicalism -- History -- 20th century | Insurgency -- History -- 20th century | Political violence -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 909.826 Summary: This book describes the events of 1968: the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the Prague spring and the beginning of the end to communism, the Tet offensive in Vietnam and the anti-war movement, student rebellion in France, more impetus to the women's movement, the fall of Richard Nixon, the first men on the moon, and lots of roll and roll. The political and social situations of various other countries are discussed, such as Germany, China and Cuba, for instance.
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Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book describes the events of 1968: the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the Prague spring and the beginning of the end to communism, the Tet offensive in Vietnam and the anti-war movement, student rebellion in France, more impetus to the women's movement, the fall of Richard Nixon, the first men on the moon, and lots of roll and roll. The political and social situations of various other countries are discussed, such as Germany, China and Cuba, for instance.

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