The Age of Comet: 1918, When the World Restarts
by (germany) Daniel Schönpflug
About This Novel
The World War I edition of "When the Stars of Mankind Shine" was recommended by the New York Times and The Times, sought after by media on four continents, and was named a best book of the year by the Financial Times. This book shows the little-noticed but emerging critical turning point in 1918, and glimpses the signs of changes in the world structure since then: the lost revolutionary youth will set off the independent revolution, and the defeated soldiers will grow into Nazi murderers - human history has never been so chaotic, and it has never been so dazzling! Everyone carries a different past, faces the same reality, and faces an unknown future: Foch was forgotten in peacetime; Erzberger was assassinated after returning home; Hess became the commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp; Truman retired from politics and participated in another world war as president; Woolf could no longer find inner peace until she threw herself into a river...
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