Hunger's Rogues: On the Black Ma

"With the bluntness and verve of folk memory, Hunger's Rogues brings a forgotten era to ife. It is post-World War II Germany, with its bleak DP camps crammed with homeless East Europeans, its near-famine food-rationing system, and its inevitable, black market, a gritty and vital improvisation that fed the body contraband food while it released the spirit through heady infusions of enterprise and freedom."