The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The Age of Extremes, with the start-off realism struggle; his main short letter was that there is no fellow feeling the short twentieth ascorbic acid without mentioning the contends that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the beginning of the First orb war, everyone thought that it was the beginning of the determination of the world. This was the first metre entirely the major powers had been involved. The major players in the game at that time being (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, USA and Japan), out front this there had been brief wars plainly not compared to the First instauration War. Most of the troops from early(a) nations were made to fight after-school(prenominal) their nations.\nCanadians fought in France, Australia and New Zealand fought at Gallipoli. The First humanity War involved everyone, the colonies of the imperialists they had no filling; they were forced to fight willingly or not w illingly. The Germany formulate was to knock off France right away and then move on to knock off Russia as well. The Germany army went to France through nonsubjective Belgium, which made the British aggregate because of the treat that Belgium had cuted with Britain. reduplicate lines were drawn between Germany, France and Britain, which was cognize as the Hesperian front. The Western front costed Britain 420000 exanimate and 60000 dead on the first day.\n in that location was nothing like the First World War, lives were upset, young lives were lost 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 eon of thirty. People 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 democratic nations knowing that bulk did not want to go through the war again. Politicians knew that in order to win votes, they had to realise citizen s that there was not exhalation to be another war, in the future. Germany having lost they war; they had to sign the Versaille...