Meet Me in Buenos Aires

An intensely personal and revealing biography of life with one of the 20th Century's most influential intellectuals. A rich and fascinating life ,from pre-war Vienna via an émigré childhood in the UK and on to Italy, the Congo and the US. At the time of his death Eric Hobsbawm was the most famous historian in the world. He not only wrote history but was witness to it, from Communist uprising in Europe to revolution in Cuba where he was Che Guevara's interpreter. He was instrumental in the birt