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Very original, and entertaining take on a world history. Starts with neanderthal and ends with Trump and Obama. He uses families, many different families, to tell the story across all the continents which is nice. Not so europe and northamerica centralized as other attempts. When you have such a big scope on your story the problem for the author is to keep his characters interesting (or you can chose to skip characters all together and write about themes which i dont like). Montefiore solves this by using families to make all the characters relatable and let us at the same time shudder at the many atrocities they commit. For, lets face it, the world did not become the place it is today because we were nice to eachother. It is 1200+ pages but considering the time and space he covers i think thats well condensed. Just started but very promising. My birthday present to myself!
Macinnes is, IMO, one of the more underrated authors of spy/adventure stories. Almost forgotten sadly. I rank her above Maclean and john le carre in general though they both had some really good ones. There is also a big difference between them. In their books it is usually professionals that handle the danger. MacInnes usually has a main character, quite ordinary, that quite reluctantly gets dragged into affairs there it is sink or swim that goes. Here a 22 year old british girl gets stranded in warsaw when war erupts, borders are closed and end up being a freelance british spy in warsaw and berlin during the war. Macinnes main characters are much more relatable and you can recognize yourself in them.
I have always found the practice of sending small kids to boarding school neglectful and selfish.
Reading Widowland by C:J. Carey. A dystopian alternate history where england formed an alliance with germany to avoid war in 1940. Now its 1953 and the Leader (Hitler) and his seconds (Goebbels and Himmler) are forming plans for how to brainwash the youth. Reads like a mixture of Margaret Atwood and George Orwell. Perhaps not at their stylistic level, hard to do, but in tone. Started really promising.