Second world war anoraks and students of military history will get more of what they are looking for from mr beevor , but less committed readers will find mr hastings 's work easier to get to grips with and a better read .
At this point , a member of that tiny band of anoraks who fully understand the complexities of the single market one of the schleswig-holstein questions of our time may pipe up and say the problem lies in the european economic area , not the eurozone or the eu .
Quantitative easing , on the other hand , has been a complete mystery to all but hardened anoraks until zero interest rates started to loom late last year .