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The lives of Vic Woods and Ruth Wolfe, working-class teenagers from Liverpool and London, are profoundly disrupted by the arrival of World War II. Ruth’s jour

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Westerners seem united in the belief that China has emerged as a major economic power and that this success will most likely continue indefinitely. But they are