Keylor, W. R., The Twentieth-Century World: An International History, Oxford

Keylor, W. R., The Twentieth-Century World: An International History, Oxford
University Press, 2003, ISBN-10: 0195168437 (paperback, 2005)

If you are a student who needs to cram the history of international relations in the XX century in a single night before the test, this is the book you need. Judging by its 5th edition, this is the opinion of many. It is cursory, but accurate. Moreover, unlike most other English-language sources, Keylor’s treatise gives ample consideration to political events in the regions outside of the Euro-Atlantic sphere, such as East Asia or Latin America.

Priorities, though, are strange. The whole World War II and the Holocaust occupy 18 pages out of six hundred, fewer than the 90s dissolution of Yugoslavia. Maps are good, but statistical tables are sketchy, mostly geared towards American trade relations.