This is an account of how the lives of ordinary people were changed, profoundly and permanently, during the years 1914-1945. Often depicted in negative terms, t... » 

This is an account of how the lives of ordinary people were changed, profoundly and permanently, during the years 1914-1945. Often depicted in negative terms, the author finds in these years a positive pattern, depicted in the evidence he lays before the reader. «