Bas Blokker & Hendrik Spiering [ed.] - Een eeuw in voorpagina's 1900-1999: NRC Handelsblad

Bas Blokker & Hendrik Spiering [sst.] - Een eeuw in voorpagina's 1900-1999: NRC Handelsblad - [Rotterdam] - NRC Handelsblad - 1999 - 1st edition - [110] pp - Paperback - 30 x 42 cm. - Design: Colette Sloots.

Condition: Good - cover with wear, some small spots. Neat copy.

Overview of the most important world events of the 20th century through 100 reproductions of 'front pages' of the 'Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant'. With an introduction by editor-in-chief Folkert Jensma and INDEX. Text in Dutch. Cover: Henry Cannon.

¶ With headlines about, i.a. the Boer War in South Africa (1902); San Francisco earthquake (1906); debate on the existence of the car (1908); the TITANIC (1912); the First World War (1914); Russian Revolution (1917); New York Stock Market Crash (1929); Adolf Hitler (1933); D-Day in Normandy (1944); the assassination of President Kennedy (1963); Apollo mission to the Moon (1969); the car-free Sunday (1973);

FURTHER: the Moluccan train hijacking (1977); the Frisian Elfstedentocht (1985); the fall of the Berlin wall (1989); the Bijlmer plane crash (1992); Monica Lewinsky (1998) and NATO starts war against Yugoslavia over Kosovo (1999).