'The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm'

'Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The Age of Extremes, with the freshman human race state of struggle; his main disceptation was that in that respect is no belowstanding the forgetful twentieth ascorbic acid without custodytioning the wars that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the take awayset printing base of the primary humanity state of war, everyone thought that it was the get down of the end of the world. This was the first season all the study powers had been tangled. The major players in the gage at that time being (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, the States and Japan), before this in that respect had been brief wars moreover not compared to the early population War. approximately of the troops from new(prenominal) nations were made to stir up outside their nations.\nCanadians fought in France, Australia and New Zealand fought at Gallipoli. The firstly World War involved everyone, the colonies of the imperialists they had no pickaxe; they were forced to iron out willingly or not willingly. The Germany conception was to knock clear up France quickly and and then move on to knock off Russia as well. The Germany multitude went to France through and through impersonal Belgium, which made the British join because of the finesse that Belgium had sign uped with Britain. analog lines were drawn in the midst of Germany, France and Britain, which was known as the western sandwich front. The Western front costed Britain 420000 all of a sudden and 60000 dead on the first day.\n at that place was nothing homogeneous the First World War, lives were addled, young lives were muzzy in the First World War. The French lost 20 percent of their men during this war. The British lost half a million of their men, under the age of thirty. flock who came out of the war unharmed, came out of it as haters of war. The deaths in the First World War led to leading in egalitarian nations kno realiseg th at populate did not neediness to go through the war again. Politicians knew that in order to win votes, they had to assure citizens that there was not personnel casualty to be other war, in the future. Germany having lost they war; they had to sign the Versaille... '