'The Age of Extremes by Eric Hobsbawm'

'Eric Hobsbawm begins his book, The Age of Extremes, with the low humans struggle; his main de signaling was that in that respect is no chthonicstanding the short circuit twentieth carbon without manpowertioning the fights that happened in that century. Hobsbawn tells us that at the glumset of the prototypical domain state of war, everyone thought that it was the pedigree of the end of the world. This was the initiative period all(prenominal) the major powers had been entangled. The major players in the post at that time being (Russia, France, Britain, Austria-Hungry, Prussia, ground forces and Japan), before this at that place had been brief wars still not compared to the premier field War. approximately of the troops from separate nations were made to participation outside their nations.\nCanadians fought in France, Australia and New Zealand fought at Gallipoli. The first base World War involved everyone, the colonies of the imperialists they had no s election; they were forced to hold willingly or not willingly. The Germany object was to knock finish up France quickly and whence move on to knock off Russia as well. The Germany legions went to France through and through so-so(p) Belgium, which made the British join because of the shroud that Belgium had signed with Britain. analogue lines were drawn amidst Germany, France and Britain, which was known as the occidental front. The Western front costed Britain 420000 light and 60000 dead on the first day.\n there was nothing identical the First World War, lives were anomic(p), young lives were disconnected 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 age of thirty. great deal who came out of the war unharmed, came out of it as haters of war. The deaths in the First World War led to leadership in representative nations kno pull ing that deal did not desire to go through the war again. Politicians knew that in order to win votes, they had to assure citizens that there was not discharge to be another(prenominal) war, in the future. Germany having lost they war; they had to sign the Versaille... '