Books: Men in Peace

SEVEN DAYS—Andreas Latzko—Viking ($2.50)* Andreas Latzko's Men in War was one of the first realistic War books to make a considerable sensation. Since then post-War upheaval has sent Latzko, like many a German and Austrian author, to sociological school. In Seven Days he measures the German social disorder with a top-to-toe glance.

When Karl Abt, poor workman, saw his old enemy Baron Mangien sneaking into somebody else's Berlin house on Christmas Eve, he smelled a rat, hoped he could trap it. Sure enough he caught the Baron with another man's wife, blackmailed...

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