Interesting, though perhaps too cynical view to the most extreme century of human history.

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if you’re a socialist or communist don’t waste your time on this historical revisionist nonsense. if you’re a liberal anti communist or a trotskyist you’ll probably love it

From the beginning of the First World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union, The Age of Extremes describes the history of the 20th Century with great insight, depth, and from a viewpoint that will be new to many readers. Hobsbawm was a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist all his life.

I know that everyone thinks Hobsbawm is such a great historian and all that jazz, but his writing style is too annoying to handle for a book this long. He starts every paragraph (okay, like every other paragraph) with "yet," "however," or "although," as if the whole book is him making statements and then contradicting himself. He gives meaningless, forgettable statistics throughout and overall this is the kind of book that you can spend 40 hours reading and still take away nothing away from.