- Modern History, World history, communism, history
In this masterful and highly accessible study of our times, one of the world's leading historians sheds exciting new light on our understanding of the twentieth century, with incisive assessments of events that have marked this turbulent period.
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Epic, plot-driven, earnest and grave.
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Eric Hobsbawm
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 627
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph, Little Brown and Company, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9780394585758
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“Lines of grey muttering faces, masked with fear, They leave their trenches, going over the top, While time ticks blank and busy on their wrists, And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists, Flounders in mud.”
Eric Ernest Hobsbawm was a British academic historian and Marxist historiographer.
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