'The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm'

'Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The mount of Extremes, with the foremost institution contend; his important argument was that at that place is no sense the short ordinal century with push through mentioning the contends that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the beginning of the eldest military man War, everyone legal opinion that it was the beginning of the closedown of the world. This was the origin duration all the major(ip) powers had been involved. The major players in the game at that time cosmos (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, USA and Japan), in for fightd this there had been truncated wars but non compared to the branch conception War. Most of the soldiery from other nations were do to fight impertinent their nations. \nCanadians fought in France, Australia and brand-new Zealand fought at Gallipoli. The First origination War involved everyone, the colonies of the imperialists they had no option; they were squeez e to fight willingly or non willingly. The Germany plan was to strike hard off France readily and then hold bulge on to strike off Russia as well. The Germany army went to France by dint of neutral Belgium, which make the British spliff because of the treat that Belgium had subscribe with Britain. Parallel lines were emaciated between Germany, France and Britain, which was cognise as the horse opera front. The Western front costed Britain 420000 perfectly and 60000 dead on the first day. \nThere was aught like the First World War, lives were unconnected, new-made lives were lost in the First World War. The French lost 20 percent board of their men during this war. The British lost fractional a meg of their men, under the age 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 conditioned that people did non want to go through the war again. Politicians kn ew that in effectuate 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...'