Blood and Banquets: A Berlin Diary, 1930-38

Bella Fromm. Simon & Schuster, $12 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-75139-5

Fromm (1900-1972), an upper-class Jewish society columnist for a Berlin newspaper, kept a diary of the Nazis' rise to power. This was a BOMC, History Book Club and Jewish Book Club alternate in cloth. (May)

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