I read too, and since I’m writing about the Great Depression, World War II, and it’s aftermath, I focus a lot on historical fiction from that period. Here’s one book that will help me put together my next novel. The truth gives me context and makes my books for realistic.
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose reads like a thriller while revealing long-ignored contribution women made to the Allies during World War II. Finally giving credit where credit is due, D-Day Girls follows a few of the women who joined their male colleagues in leading a guerilla army of French resistance fighters to defeat the Nazi occupation. More than 450 agents, supported by special operations in Britain, “were counted as worth fifteen divisions in France, or about 200,000 troops.” Faced like their male counterparts with betrayal, torture, and death, the women stood up to the worst the Nazis had to offer, with courage and perseverance. I enjoyed reading about women who had such agency in their own times.https://www.amazon.com/D-Day-Girls-Resistance-Sabotaged-Helped/dp/0451495098