‘People of the Book’

“Two great world wars are over; before us lies a future in which, perhaps, the survival of man as a species depends on avoiding a third. Our chief obligation as writers — yours and mine — is to give our readers more awareness than they would otherwise possess of the realities that they confront, the human beings amongst whom they move, and the direction in which they are being carried off by the apocalyptic age which embraces us all.” Vera Brittain, “On Being An Author” (1948)

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