The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914 Nature_Gift_Guide Budding artists just have to

Budding artists just have to pick up their pencils

managing his department's oddball faculty

caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices

But it isn't easy to become magicians

The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914 Nature_Gift_Guide Budding artists just have toThe wonders, horrors, and fears of the early twentieth century are brought to life in this beautifully told history. "Hugely enjoyable and illuminating A work of narrative history at its best." Guardian Europe, 1900 1914: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The major topics of the day: terrorism, globalization, immigration, consumerism, the collapse of moral values, and the rivalry of superpowers. The twentieth century