In this era of inflation, let me once again recommend Arthur R. G. Solmssen's A Princess in Berlin (1980), which covertly offers a crash course in early-1920s G

In this era of inflation, let me once again recommend Arthur R. G. Solmssen's A Princess in Berlin (1980), which covertly offers a crash course in early-1920s German political and economic history—including many details of the societal effects of hyperinflation—amidst a very sweet love story.