FRACTURE/ LIFE AND CULTURE IN THE WEST, 1918

When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism and the belief in human progress had all been cal led 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 ter rifying new ideologies arose from the wreckage of past belief. In Fracture, critically acclaimed historian Philipp Blom argues that in the aft...[Read more]