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The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991
The twentieth century was a rollercoaster of madness, hope, and chaos — and not the fun kind with cotton candy. Eric Hobsbawm’s "The Age of Extremes" dives headfirst into that mess, cutting through the hype and the horror to show us how the world got from trench warfare to the fall of the Soviet Union. Spoiler: it wasn’t a straight line, and it sure wasn’t pretty.
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