History book recs?
Apr. 15th, 2015 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gaudiorHey, does anyone know any really, really readable (like, relatively fast-moving, more stories-about-people than theory-driven, fun) books about New York/Brooklyn in the 1930s and 40s, and/or about World War II?
Asking for a friend.
(Who is writing an Avengers fanfic.)
(And is me.)
(I'm aware that the world does not have a dearth of Avengers fanfic, but-- I'm having fun. I haven't had this kind of enjoyment and enthusiasm for writing for over a year. Most of the past year, I've either not written at all, or felt like I was dredging words out of my brain with a fork, and they weren't even very good words. But this-- I'm writing every time I've got a spare minute, and I'm finding more of them than I thought I had. I have about 15.5k words so far, and I like the words I've got. And if this fic is nothing but fun for me and food for my id-- well, those are still good things! So I am writing it. And book recommendations would be really helpful-- I have a hard time getting through a lot of nonfiction, especially if it's dense, but I trust you guys to have some good ideas!)
--R
Asking for a friend.
(Who is writing an Avengers fanfic.)
(And is me.)
(I'm aware that the world does not have a dearth of Avengers fanfic, but-- I'm having fun. I haven't had this kind of enjoyment and enthusiasm for writing for over a year. Most of the past year, I've either not written at all, or felt like I was dredging words out of my brain with a fork, and they weren't even very good words. But this-- I'm writing every time I've got a spare minute, and I'm finding more of them than I thought I had. I have about 15.5k words so far, and I like the words I've got. And if this fic is nothing but fun for me and food for my id-- well, those are still good things! So I am writing it. And book recommendations would be really helpful-- I have a hard time getting through a lot of nonfiction, especially if it's dense, but I trust you guys to have some good ideas!)
--R
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Date: 2015-04-16 04:47 am (UTC)Seconded, plus Leo Marks' Between Silk and Cyanide (1998) if you're interested in the SOE. (Since nothing in canon has ever told me otherwise, I've always assumed that's where Peggy came from.)
My knowledge of 1930's/'40's New York in books is much worse than my knowledge of 1930's/'40's New York in film. I've asked