The Age of Extremes
Subtitle: A History of the World, 1914-1991
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780844671215
Subjects: History: World; World - General; History
First sentence: Lines of grey muttering faces, masked with fear, They leave their trenches, going over the top, While time ticks blank and busy on their wrists, And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists, Flounders in mud.