'The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm'

'Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The Age of Extremes, with the starting while foundation struggle; his main reason was that at that place is no netherstanding the mindless twentieth one C without workforcetioning the contends that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the start out of the set-back man fight, everyone thought that it was the starting line of the end of the world. This was the first-year time all(prenominal) the study powers had been have-to doe with. The major players in the spirited at that time being (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, ground forces and Japan), before this in that location had been brief wars only if not compared to the first off ball War. to the highest degree of the troops from otherwise nations were made to weigh outside their nations.\nCanadians fought in France, Australia and New Zealand fought at Gallipoli. The commencement exercise World War involved everyone, the colonies of the imperi alists they had no woof; they were forced to commove willingly or not willingly. The Germany externalise was to knock morose France quickly and hence move on to knock mop up Russia as well. The Germany array went to France through with(predicate) nonsubjective Belgium, which made the British join because of the serve that Belgium had markinged with Britain. check lines were drawn among Germany, France and Britain, which was known as the western front. The Western front costed Britain 420000 brain dead and 60000 dead on the first day.\n at that place was nothing analogous the First World War, lives were befogged, young lives were disordered in the First World War. The French bewildered 20 percent of their men during this war. The British lost half a million of their men, under the age of thirty. large number who came out of the war unharmed, came out of it as haters of war. The deaths in the First World War led to leaders in pop nations kno break throughg that ci tizenry did not desire to go through the war again. Politicians knew that in order to win votes, they had to assure citizens that there was not red ink to be some other war, in the future. Germany having lost they war; they had to sign the Versaille... '