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The really frightening risk of war was neglect, filth, poor organization, defective medical services, and hygenic ignorance, which conditions (as in the troops) practically everybody.

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About Eric Hobsbawm

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm, CH, FRSL, FBA (9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British Marxist historian and author and a leading theorist of the Communist Party of Great Britain (1920–1991), and former president of Birkbeck College, University of London.

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Native Name: Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm

Alternative Names: Obstbaum • E.J. Hobsbawm

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