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All for Nothing

Hands down, this is the best book I’ve read all year: All For Nothing by Walter Kempowski.  It’s the bitter winter of 1945. An odd assortment of people lives in the Georgenhof – a small neglected estate in East Prussia. Eberhard von Globig is a Sonderführer, a special officer in the German army away in Italy confiscating wine and olive…

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