GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
Book: Eat My Heart Out
Tedious traumas in an amoral dystopia
Eat My Heart Out
by Zoe Pilger
(Serpent's Tail, £11.99)
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