The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.

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My father was in the First World War.

— Doris Lessing

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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

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The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'

— Edward Herrmann

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The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

— Whittaker Chambers

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This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

— Erich Maria Remarque

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