Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Best or worst?

After his famous ‘Age of . . .’ trilogy on the 19th century, E. J. Hobsbawm published a coda (best-selling but in my view much less satisfactory) on the history of the 20th century

issue 19 January 2008

  • Barbarism and Civilisation: A History of Europe in Our Time

    by Bernard Wasserstein

    OUP, pp. 900

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