Eric Hobsbawm. The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991. London: Abacus, 1995. I've just been rereading Hobsbawm's trilogy on the long 19th century, and realised I hadn't read his book on the short 20th century, and so here we are.
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