Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 Bestseller to dispatching saboteurs to disrupt

to dispatching saboteurs to disrupt American industry

Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era

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Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 Bestseller to dispatching saboteurs to disruptDescription by Philipp Blom Hardcover When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order had collapsed, replaced by an age of machines. The world hurtled forward on gears and crankshafts, and terrifying new