Arthur R. G. Solmssen

A story about the decadence of society while leading up to the war, followed by a different, but related, flavour of decadence, once the war is underway. We tend to forget about profiteers because they always hide themselves so well. But they are there, working silently to fill their own pockets. Meanwhile, the average person cannot get bread, and has to sleep somewhere cold every night. After I read this book I wanted to find more books by this author about wartime. But found out that his other books are about a legal practice in the United States. I will still try them because if they are as good as the book being reviewed, it will not matter that they were not about the expected subject.… (more)