Modern Times
Subtitle: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: November 1991
Language: eng
Number of pages: 880
ISBN-13: 9780064334273
First sentence: The modern world began on 29 May 1919 when photographs of a solar eclipse, taken on the island of Principe off West Africa and at Sobral Brazil, confirmed the truth of a new theory of the universe.