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Now, God Be Thanked
In 1914 the prosperous Rowland family and the working families connected to their factories enter the First World War with sharply different expectations of duty and status. Younger men volunteer or receive commissions, while those at home assume that the conflict will be brief and that the established social order will survive it.
The Western Front quickly destroys those assumptions. As casualties mount and women take on work previously closed to them, Masters follows aristocrats, industrial workers and their families through the first stages of a war that begins to level distinctions between them. The opening Loss of Eden novel is both a family saga and a portrait of British society discovering the scale of modern war.
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