The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The eld of Extremes, with the prototypic human race struggle; his main argument was that thither is no understanding the light twentieth century with protrude mentioning the wars that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the get of the runner World War, everyone opinion that it was the beginning of the end of the world. This was the liemost time all the major powers had been snarly. The major players in the farinaceous at that time creation (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, USA and Japan), before this in that respect had been brief wars but not compared to the First World War. just about of the troops from other nations were make to fight outside their nations. \nCanadians fought in France, Australia and New Zealand fought at Gallipoli. The First World War involved everyone, the colonies of the imperialists they had no option; they were agonistic to fight willingly or not willingly. The Germany plan was t o hit off France quickly and then move on to smash-up off Russia as well. The Germany troops went to France finished neutral Belgium, which make the British join because of the consider that Belgium had signed with Britain. Parallel lines were careworn between Germany, France and Britain, which was known as the Western front. The Western front costed Britain 420000 dead and 60000 dead on the first day. \nThere was nil like the First World War, lives were missed(p), young lives were lost in the First World War. The cut lost 20 per centum of their men during this war. The British lost half a jillion of their men, under the age of thirty. peck who came out of the war unharmed, came out of it as haters of war. The deaths in the First World War direct to leaders in elective nations knowing that people did not want to go through the war again. Politicians knew that in roll to win votes, they had to assure citizens that at that place was not going to be another war, in th e future. Germany having lost they war; they had to sign the Versaille...