Volume 30, Number 5 · March 31, 1983
Acts of the Apostles
By Hugh Trevor-Roper
After Long Silence
by Michael Straight
Norton, 351 pp., $17.50
To Europeans, the 1930s are an unforgettable decade. Those who were young then were marked by it for life, and still, in their old age, live under its shadow: not till they are dead will it sink into its historical context and become objectively comparable with other periods. For those were very special years, different from the decades that had preceded and would follow them. Society was divided not only by class or nation but also, more sharply than is usual, by generation.
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