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Hitler kept lazy hours and rarely issued a written order. Kershaw explains the machine anyway: officials across Germany competing to anticipate what the Führer wanted, radicalizing policy from below into genocide.
Faust shows a country improvising the machinery of mass death: embalming, identifying bodies, burying the unknown at federal expense. Six hundred twenty thousand men died between 1861 and 1865, most among strangers.
A woman tends her comatose husband, a bullet in his neck, and tells him everything Afghanistan never let her say. In Persian legend the patience stone absorbs every confession until it shatters.
Nobody has written funnier prose about drink. Kingsley Amis separates the physical hangover from the metaphysical one, calculates what a party will actually consume, and hands down recipes he plainly tested.