1968: The Year that Rocked the World
by Mark Kurlansky (Ballantine, 2003); audiobook read by Christopher Cazenove (Phoenix, 2004)
A deep dive into the momentous-seeming socio-political events (mostly American and European) that shaped 1968. Kurlansky makes connections and shows likenesses, but whereas he biographises 1968 down to its minutiae, he omits the ‘what happened after’ contextualising necessary to establish lasting impact.