International Bestseller This "absolute gem of a book" offers a month-by-month account of the year before World War I--one of the most exciting times in the 20th-century (The Observer)
It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong first picked up a trumpet. It was the year Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie contract, and Coco Chanel and Prada opened...