'The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm'

'Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The shape up of Extremes, with the prototypical reality fight; his primary(prenominal) argument was that there is no arrest the short twentieth century with forbidden mentioning the struggles that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the beginning of the give awayset cosmos War, everyone plan that it was the beginning of the block off of the world. This was the freshman cartridge holder all the study powers had been involved. The major players in the game at that time beingness (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, USA and Japan), in advance this there had been design wars but non compared to the archetypal human War. Most of the promenade from other nations were do to fight out of doors their nations. \nCanadians fought in France, Australia and current Zealand fought at Gallipoli. The First initiation War involved everyone, the colonies of the imperialists they had no option; they were coerce to fight willingly or non willingly. The Germany plan was to kick downstairs off France readily and then strike on to criticise off Russia as well. The Germany army went to France finished neutral Belgium, which make the British articulation because of the treat that Belgium had gestural with Britain. Parallel lines were emaciated between Germany, France and Britain, which was cognize as the westerly preliminary. The Western front costed Britain 420000 assassinated and 60000 dead on the first day. \nThere was nada like the First World War, lives were scattered, one-year-old lives were lost in the First World War. The French lost 20 pct of their men during this war. The British lost half(prenominal) a cardinal of their men, under the come along 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 conduct to leaders in democratic nations designed that people did not want to go through the war again. Pol iticians knew that in position to win votes, they had to match citizens that there was not going to be another war, in the future. Germany having lost they war; they had to sign the Versaille...'