Travel Back In Time to 1940's England

If you like historical fiction and science fiction, boy, do I have a book for you! I am reading Blackout by Connie Willis. Historians from 2060 are time traveling back to London during World War II. Some are studying how civilians coped with the constant bombing known as the Blitz. Others travel to Dunkirk to watch the heroic efforts of everyday Englishmen who took to the seas in pleasure boats and fishing craft to rescue thousands of troops. They braved mines, attacks from submarines and airplanes. I am not a huge fan of WWII historical fiction and yet I could not keep my nose out of this book. The characters are so engaging you feel like you know them; the mischievous London evacuee children, the brave shop girls, and the Londoners who form impromptu families while they shelter underground from the bombs that dropped every night. It is slow and a little confusing at the beginning, but keep with it, once the historians reach England it becomes simply riveting.

A word of warning; this book ends with a cliff hanger that won’t be resolved until the concluding novel, All Clear, comes out in October. Not good for impatient readers like me!