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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life. Eric Hobsbawm. Allen Lane: The Penguin Press. [pound sterling]20.00. 448 pages. ISBN 0-713-99581-5.

Eric Hobsbawm is one of Britain's outstanding historians. His life has spanned and touched great events. From his birth in the year of the Bolshevik revolution he has lived through the emergence of the Soviet Union, the rise of fascism and Nazism, the Second World War, the Cold War and the collapse of communism. His personal circumstances are equally fascinating. Born in Alexandria of an English Jewish father and an Austrian Jewish mother, he lived first in Vienna in the 1920s and then in Berlin, as the Weimar Republic ...

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