This book is about mad people That includes Hitler and his cronies It is about man's inhumanity to man from around the time of the 1st World War up until present day. The Somme gets a mention, and the Psycho Hitler, and some of the other Nutjobs in the Nazi party. Auschwitz & the other Concentration Camps are mentioned as well and the short life of Anne Frank. She was only 15 when she died. It is also about being Jewish. And it is about all the anti-semitism that is still going on in the world today. "Lest We Forget " It is also about how we take people out of the mental hospitals and expect them to survive in the outside world A lot of them do not cope well back in the community. The "Care in the Community" policy came in as early as the 1950s to repatriate people from the mental hospitals into the community, but many people re-offend again and the policy does not seem to work very well. It is also a critique of modern life, written in modern-day language.