Jessica Draut - Alternative Topic #2

I think the fact that C.S. Lewis lived during the World Wars  and wrote the Space Trilogy around the time of  World War II had an immense impact on the trilogy. The trilogy - particularly That Hideous Strength - deals largely with the idea of experiencing an apocalyptic event in one's own lifetime. Edgestow is swallowed up in flood, earthquake and flame - it is utterly destroyed. I wonder that C.S. Lewis and other English men and women indeed feared that the World Wars would spell the end of England. I can only imagine that from the constant bombing day in and day out would certainly give the feeling of it. 

Nowadays there is always some craze about the end of the world being close at hand. But have we recently had an experience of such a devastating and wholescale impact to actually give the feeling that your world could end in the very near future?