GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
Books: Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine
Outsider view of the ultimate loner
Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine
by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster
(Verso: £14.99)
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