I am reading Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson (Stormlight book 4). I'm really enjoying this one, it may be my favorite in the series so far!
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At the moment reading The Book Thief and Careless People. Currently more busy with The Book Thief (about ~100 pages in).
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Taking Manhattan by Russell Shorto.
It is a sequel of sorts to The City at the Center of the World.
Really enjoying it. The author has some interesting ideas and is skilled at narrative nonfiction.
Ian Fleming's Secret War:
https://www.casematepublishers.com/9781473853492/ian-flemings-secret-war/
Which I picked up as a sort of companion piece to "Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare":
and "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare":
The true stories of which were adapted into the really fun film of the same name:
Fleming was a bit player in the other books and the film, and I was interested to learn more about what he did during the war.
I'm about 1/2 way through the Fleming book and the answer seems to be "Well, not much, really."
He had a great idea to capture a German encryption device. The plan was to pilot a captured German airplane over the English channel, find a suitable German boat and crash the plane in the water nearby.
When "rescued", the soldiers, dressed as Germans, would capture the boat and the encryption device.
Unfortunately on the day of the mission, there were no suitable boats in the channel and the whole mission was scrubbed. :(
The other two books are captivating in their telling, the Fleming book? Eh, not so much. But I'm not done yet, it could get better!
I’ve just finished The Rhine by Ben Coates, which was nice, made me really want to book a holiday and go do the same, traveling from Rotterdam to Basel.
I’ve also been playing a bunch of Assassins Creed Odyssey recently so thought I’d start reading Odyssey by Stephen Fry. Only just started so will see how it goes, but I’ve read the previous three and thought they were great.
Poirot Investigates, by Agatha Christie.