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A master historian's account of the middle-class world of our grandparents and how its sudden collapse in World War I laid the basis for the catastrophes of the 20th century. 54 photos, maps, charts.

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Centenaries are an invention of the late nineteenth century.

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  1. E. J. Hobsbawm (Author)
 

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