Finished Erik Larson The Splendid and the Vile about Churchill & his family during the early years of the Second World War and Blitz. The atmosphere of dread and danger, not knowing what would happen next, fits pretty well into the times we're in now. One woman describes losing all her books in a Nazi bombing raid, especially a rare collection of travel guides, but then says "anyway travel is over, like the rest of civilization." History echoing itself ...