Title: A well done history of modern physics.
Review: I regard Abraham Pais as one of the best physics historians. Helge Kragh in this book manages to present quality and attention to detail as comparable to Pais as can expected without being inundated with equations. Kragh is capable of biographies as complete in detail as Pais; i.e. "Dirac: A Scientific Biography"A fraction of this book provides incidental historical details complete with charts and graphs, i.e. the number of spectroscopy papers written between 1890 and 1910, or the raise of physics in the USA, and effects of the war on physics, etc. Now historians proper, will expect this in a history of twentieth century physics, but if you are purely interested in the development of modern physics theories, this will seem like padding, although perhaps interesting. Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it highly.
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