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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-century Life

by Eric Hobsbawm · 2002

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Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the 85 years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. His autobiography is an account of his travels through that past which is another country, where they do things differently.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
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historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisBritishBritishMore like thisLess of thisEuropeEuropeMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
long · 448 pages

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