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History and the Sock Merchant: A history of the 20th Century in 100 eBooks

History and the Sock Merchant: A history of the 20th Century in 100 eBooks: I have friends whom I know could develop a real and enjoyable casual interest in history, if only they came across it in a more de-mystifi...

A gargantuan task!

I have been taking a little time away from this blog page in the past year or so as I have begun to gear up for the iron man of my writing career, something I've wanted to do for a long time and now have the ability to commence. I am writing a complete history of the 20th Century, I want to try to shoe horn it into about a million words, or 100 ebooks of about 10,000 words per chapter, but I suspect it might run over. You can see the first few products of my labours here. Anyway dear readers, here is how you can help; I definitely don't want to turn this massive life mission into the same old prosaic stuff (you know WWI, Roaring 20s, Depression, Hitler, Cold War, Vietnam, End of Communism, 9/11 and that's all folks) I think that would be a disingenuous and dishonest account, I am after comprehensiveness, depth, I want to include the cultural history of the century, I want to give Indonesians, Persians, Malawians, Chileans and Armenians as much of a voice as I give JM Keynes, General MacArthur or Leonid Bresznev, this has to be something more! It has to be greater than me, greater than all of us, a chronicle that is not constrained by size, something that Hobsbawm or Taylor would put into print if they had the infinate canvas presented to us by ebooks.

Sorry, I am getting ahead of myself, and freely accept that I am not even half the scholar of the two aforementioned....

Anyway, you might like the following:

The Roaring 20s and the Wall St Crash

Britain, France, Germany and the Treaty of Versailles

The Palmer Raids and the Red Scare, 1918-1920

Red Sun Rising: Japan, China and Europe 1894 -1941

Let me know what you think and where we should go from here!