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Overy looks at both the decision making process leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the role of the these bombings in ending the war. An interesting reassessment of the simplistic tale typically told.

Uhlman is best known as a painter and that comes through in much of his prose. Reunion is the story of a brief friendship between two students during Hitler’s rise to power. Like in Taylor’s Address Unknown, the corrosiveness of fascism is on full display here.

Steinbeck wrote The Moon is Down for the Allied propaganda effort during WWII. A crisp little novella of the conquered and the conquerors.

Memory, family and the line between human and other animals are among the topics Fowler explores in this odd novel. An intriguing cast of characters, not least the occasionally unreliable narrator, keep things interesting.

I tore through this one. A history of the near future written in urgent prose and brief chapters. An adventure story of a family attempting escape from a flooded New York. A coming of age tale. Excellent.