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The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food By Lizzie Collingham, 656 pp. The Penguin Press, 2012. $35. ‘We’re supposed to die of starvation, to make place for the Germans.” This was how the people of Kiev felt after Nazi occupiers began to choke off food supplies from their city in …
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