As a young man, Noah Calhoun experienced the tragedy of love ripped apart by a tradition older than writing itself—class.

年轻的时候，诺亚·卡尔霍恩被迫与挚爱分离。造成这场悲剧的是一个比书写的出现还古老的传统——门第高低。

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But the sheer magnitude of the human tragedy of the second world war puts it in a class of its own, and its relative closeness to the present day makes claims on the collective memory that more remote horrors cannot.

ECONOMIST: The second world war