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The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh

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The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War

by Alexander Waugh

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A great insight into a family who's vicissitudes spread across the beginnings of the twentieth century and two world wars. They are all absolutely mental, and quite possibly none of them were ever happy. It tapers off towards the end, as the Wittgensteins themselves do likewise. (

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