Volume 39, Number 6 · March 26, 1992
Hello to All That
By Noel Annan
A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture
by Samuel Hynes
Atheneum, 514 pp., $29.95
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
by Robert K. Massie
Random House, 1,007 pp., $35.00
Was the First World War, like the French Revolution, a climactic event in the Western world? After it was over, constitutional monarchy buttressed by an aristocracy was no longer normal; nor was private property secure from state intervention; nor was the conflict of classes in Europe any longer mitigated by emigration to America. In the old days you could travel without a passport to anywhere on the Continent except the two despotisms, Russia and Turkey. No longer.
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