Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. ... By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history of war to write letters home describing war in all its unheroic horror. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, more cultural production in general, in the twentieth century than in any previous period. ... But all through what might be term...

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