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Eric Hobsbawm, Historian of Defeat

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Eric Hobsbawm, Historian of Defeat
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Eric Hobsbawm was in Berlin when Adolf Hitler took power, in Paris at the Popular Front’s peak, and in the Communist Party when it all came down. Emile Chabal’s new biography follows a historian who always asked what remained possible after defeat.

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