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"From the ORIGINAL Time-Traveler Flashback series of books. !! Don't be fooled by poor quality AI-generated Copy-Cats !! The perfect gift for anyone born or married in THE YEAR 1972. Written by a real human. Packed with high definition enhanced-quality vintage photos on every page. Contains just the right amount of light-hearted trivia and serious international feature-news articles. A delightful trip down memory lane. This book will NOT disappoint. The Time-Traveler's Guide - Flashback series of books are a hit with all generations. Leave them on the coffee table for the grandchildren to enjoy too! Celebrate THE YEAR 1972 with this compact book packed with fun-filled fabulous facts. Discover the pop culture, the people, the places, the politics and the pleasures that made the year 1972 so special and unique, influencing the world we know today. ""Imagine if time-travel was a reality, and one fine morning you wake up to find yourself flashed back in time, back to the year 1972..."" (Get the book to read more!) Expertly written by author Bernard Bradforsand-Tyler, a history teacher with a passion for sharing knowledge. This is the perfect unique, thoughtful gift for anyone born or married in the year 1972. A beautifully presented book filled with vintage photo reproductions on every page. Includes rare vintage advertisements, reproduced in full-page, with added enlarged text for easy reading.Contains expertly researched and written original full-page feature articles on: Life in America and the United Kingdom, Cold War Events―Nuclear bombs, Vietnam War, Politics―Pentagon Papers, IRA, Popular Culture―television, music, film, books, fashion & celebrities, Greenpeace, Walt Disney, hippies, automobiles & sporting events, Trivia and other fascinating statistics."

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"Imagine if time-travel was a reality, and one fine morning you wake up to find yourself flashed back in time, back to the year 1972. What would life be like for a typical family, in a typical town...Caught between the counterculture movement of the late '60s, and the Disco era of the mid-'70s, 1972 was a year looking for direction. We were fed-up with the ongoing Cold War and the draining war in Vietnam... Now just imagine you flashed back to a town in 1972 England. Although not all doom and gloom, the United Kingdom had found itself slipping on the world stage as America and the USSR battled for domination...The ""Troubles"" in Northern Ireland peaked with the Bloody Sunday killings...The newly formed Women's Liberation Movement quickly grew to become a national movement...Across the nation, marches, protests, riots, strikes, and industrial strife were increasing. Inflation was also on the rise. The UK in 1972 was a country in decline. And this was just the beginning. The worse was yet to come... Our love affair with gas-guzzling, pollutant-emitting cars caused our air quality to deteriorate to severely unhealthy levels...left major cities regularly blanketed in a hazardous thick brown haze... We had long ago grown tired and fed-up with the ongoing Vietnam War...Numerous anti-war marches and civil disobedience campaigns were waged throughout the months...culminating with a 100,000 strong march on 22nd April 1972 in New York....In July, actress Jane Fonda traveled to North Vietnam, earning her the nickname ""Hanoi Jane""... In May 1972, members of President Nixon's re-election committee broke into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters in the Watergate building, stole documents and bugged the telephones...Meanwhile a whistle-blower known as Deep Throat provided Washington Post reporters damning proof of the illegal espionage... 1972 is officially the deadliest year on record for the 30-year-long nationalist campaign in Northern Ireland, known as The Troubles. Almost 500 people were killed ... Five terrorists stormed the Olympic Village to ambush the Israeli team. Two athletes were killed while nine others were taken hostage...two months after the massacre in Munich, Palestinian terrorists struck again-this time hijacking a Lufthansa passenger jet en route to Frankfurt...The Israeli response was swift and lethal...Operation Wrath of God was implemented, a covert assassination campaign aimed to track down and kill everyone involved the Munich massacre... The Godfather received critical acclaim, winning 3 Academy Awards from 7 nominations. It was for a while the highest grossing film ever made, propelling the careers of Al Pacino and director Francis Ford Coppola, and revitalizing the career of Marlon Brando..."

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