Age of Extremes
Subtitle: 1914-1991
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: January 17, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 627
ISBN-13: 9780394585758
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.