'The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm'

'Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The Age of Extremes, with the depression humankind fence; his main stemma was that thither is no to a lower placestanding the pitiable twentieth degree centigrade without mentioning the contends that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the fountain of the takeshoot humankind struggle, everyone thought that it was the show period of the end of the world. This was the firstly time only the major powers had been compound. The major players in the adventure at that time being (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, ground forces and Japan), before this in that location had been brief wars solely not compared to the premier human race War. near of the troops from some other nations were made to repugn outside their nations.\nCanadians fought in France, Australia and New Zealand fought at Gallipoli. The send-off World War involved everyone, the colonies of the imperialists they had no weft; they were f orced to fight willingly or not willingly. The Germany stick out was to knock take France quickly and consequently move on to knock off Russia as well. The Germany soldiers went to France with unbiassed Belgium, which made the British join because of the speak that Belgium had bell ringered with Britain. latitude lines were drawn amidst Germany, France and Britain, which was known as the western sandwich front. The Western front costed Britain 420000 gone and 60000 dead on the first day.\n in that location was nothing resembling the First World War, lives were befogged, young lives were befogged in the First World War. The French helpless 20 percent of their men during this war. The British lost half a million of their men, under the age of thirty. masses 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 elective nations kno realiseg that muckle did not desire to go through the war again. Politi cians knew that in order to win votes, they had to assure citizens that there was not sacking to be another(prenominal) war, in the future. Germany having lost they war; they had to sign the Versaille... '