John Lukacs
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The End of the Twentieth Century and the End of the Modern Age
John Lukacs
Historian John Lukacs’s brilliant new book offers a provocative summing-up of the twentieth century, that age of iron which began with the guns of August in 1914 and ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. Distinguished by its author’s masterly style and command of detail, The End of the Twentieth Century is a startling examination of where we are today, how we got here, and where we are headed.
Centering on Europe, America, and the relations between the two, Lukacs argues that the major battle of our time has been waged between forms of…
