- Social life and customs, National Book Award Winner, Fiction, Historical Fiction
In this magnificent work of fiction, William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye to the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century.
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About the book
- Author
- William T. Vollmann
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 811
- Publisher
- Viking, Penguin USA, Inc., Penguin
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101118191
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