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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for a book with the title 'To Hell and Back'.
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conversations.value: To Hell and Back
  It was a searing assessment of the collapse of civilization. In the eyes of many intellectuals, the path that Europe had taken since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, towards a civilized society based on principles of rationality and progress, lay in ruins. The very foundations of modern society itself had been undermined. The era of the Enlightenment, Horkheimer and Adorno had already concluded in 1944, had perversely culminated in the 'self-destruction of reason'.
  But the critique of Horkheimer and Adorno was not confined to Nazism and Stalinism. It extended to capitalist modern mass culture. And soon this 'culture industry', as they called it, would come to envelop the whole of western Europe.
  Few among Europe's mainly poorly educated masses were concerned with the tortured attempts of intellectuals to understand the crisis they were living through. And religion was losing its grip, slowly but surely. The more literate and educated the population, the higher the level of urbanization, the more advanced the industrial economy, the more the Catholic and Protestant Churches had to struggle to hold on to people's adherence. They had to compete not just with philosophies that rejected Christianity and offered alternative 'secular religions', but with the myriad everyday distractions of modern life in towns and cities (though less so in the countryside). The churches might be emptying; but bars, football grounds, dance halls and cinemas were bursting at the seams. Amid the hecatombs of the two wars, separated by the misery of the Depression, people still looked for what made life worth living. They wanted fun. However humdrum most people's lives were, they were shaped not only by economics or the moral strictures of the Churches, but by what made their existence more enjoyable – flashes of colour in the grey, diversions from the dreariness, relief from the unpalatable.
  What people overwhelmingly wanted was entertainment, not priestly sermons, intellectual ruminations or the edification of 'high culture'. The spread of mass entertainment had already made enormous headway during the 1920s. But it was not yet the big business it was soon to become. Technological improvements were chiefly behind its stratospheric take-off during the following decade, even amid the deep pall of economic gloom. Where entertainment had once been dependent on live performance, which could reach at best only a few hundred people on each occasion, the mass production of affordable radios and gramophones (often combined in the 'radiogram') meant that millions at precisely the same moment, across an entire country and from the privacy of their own front rooms, could listen to their favourite entertainers.
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conversations.value: Give me four more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Aly, Götz, 'Final Solution': Nazi Population Policy and the Murder of the European Jews, London, 1999.
  Bach, Maurizio and Breuer, Stefan, Faschismus als Bewegung und Regime. Italien und Deutschland im Vergleich, Wiesbaden, 2010.
  Bade, Klaus J. et al. (eds), Migration in Europa. Vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Paderborn, 2008.
  Balderston, Theo, The Origins and Cause of the German Economic Crisis, November 1923 to May 1932, Berlin, 1993.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Second World War –50; bombing raids on ; casualties ; declaration of war (September 1939) –4; and German invasion of Poland –3; long-term effect of ; social cohesion –9
  Second World War: and British declaration of war (1939) ; casualties ; defeat (1939) ; devastation of war ; retribution against ethnic Germans ; underground resistance ,
  First World War , –8; casualties , ; defence spending ; displaced populations in First World War ; and end of First World War –3; expectation of war –3; German declaration of war –6; and Germany –8, , ; mobilization ; Turkish attack on ; war plans
  Second World War: advance into Germany ; casualties ; civilian deaths –7; civilian hardships –90, ; German invasion (1941) –52, –7, –8; Operation Bagration ,
  First World War: artillery ; close fighting –5; expectations of –8; modern weaponry , ; offensive plans –9; strategic thinking ; trenches