But an entire book is much harder to digest than a plot summary.

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It was all 50 or 60 years ago, and Ms Sereny's further concern in this book is with the struggle of later generations of Germans to digest what happened, to accommodate themselves to their history.

ECONOMIST: German history

This makes his book a particularly good survey of what made up the unpleasant cocktail which the world has yet to digest.

ECONOMIST: The reasons for the crisis and how to stop it happening again