Some think that history is an aggregate of static dates and facts from which it is difficult to pick a benefit for the newspaper. In the era of the issues created by the media who are born and run out in 7 days, read this book serves to put our lives in a storm by 1914, the beginning of the Great War.

The author, Eric J. Hobsbawm, class 1917, tells the story of the century the most important and shocking, supporting the statistical data of the personal memories, memories of a man who has seen the birth and death ideologies, totals and trends of thought, feeling, as Leo says Valiani “that the victory of the ideals of justice and equality is always ephemeral, but if you are unable to safeguard the freedom, we can, however, start over.
Precisely because of the peculiarities of the ‘900 radically change the analysis technique from the previous book sull’800 “age of empires”, the chapters, are not divided into blocks of time but in topics such as analysis of ‘ evolution of morals, family, or revolutions, with a very simple technique tells us of changes fastest in history as a grandfather recounts the events of World War II to a close nephew in front of a fireplace on a winter evening.

First of all we must say that the book published it for the last BUR to a very low price, 11 euros, or recycled paper, and that is readily available or all’Enaudi Feltrinelli. Are 700 pages that “take” very well and stimulate moments of reflection.
I do not think I have the ability to review a book so large and important, so the goal of this review was simply to light the spark of curiosity