Annotation: The five-volume series, A History of Private Life, is a comprehensive study undertaken in the 1980s by a group of French, British, and American scholars under the direction of two renowned historians of the Annales School of historiography—Philippe Aries and Georges Duby. The series covers the history of the West from antiquity to the end of the 20 th century. This fifth and final volume of the series explores the 20 th century and the extraordinary changes private life underwent in this era. The authors discuss the dehumanization of persons in war and in concentration camps, the sexual revolution, new notions of sport, attempts to maintain personal privacy in the era of mass media, the rise of the internet, transformations in religions, and much more.