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The biggest question we have about Europe’s self-destructive twentieth century is: why? Why, after the Age of Enlightenment promised a better world, did everything go so brutally, murderously wrong? Before even touching on the Holocaust, Rabbi Wein sets the scene with World War One and the Communist Revolution. With human details, such as the personalities of the rulers of the day and the women they chose to marry, we see how “little things” can turn out to have monumental historic impact.

• the Jewish love of the Left, then and now
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his commoner wife
• dreadnoughts – the ship to end all ships in the war to end all wars