Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds & memories. Both travellers are professional historians still tormented by their own unanswered questions. They needed to talk to one another & the time was short. This is a book about the past but it is also an argument for the kind of future we should strive for. Thinking the Twentieth Century" is about the life of the mind
- & the mindful life."