Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 Bestseller and the Making of the

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told by a masterful storyteller

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to dispatching saboteurs to disrupt American industry

The First World War re-creates this world-altering conflict both on and off the battlefield—the clash of ideologies between the colonial powers at the center of the war

Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 Bestseller and the Making of theDescription 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