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Meanwhile, London’s No. 1 best-seller was Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, with Mein Kampf still holding first place among war books. In the U. S., as World War II trebled sales of Mein Kampf and ...

The upperclass war the trilogy chronicles—in bars and blackouts, billets and beds—will for many bear only a limited resemblance to any real war they knew or imagined.