Thank you!!!! Very very much appreciated, all of it. ❤❤❤ I'll save this all, and will definitely check the books out at some point. They do very much sound like my kind of thing! And you know the sort of things I go for. :D

The period-typical stuff I know to expect, but thank you for the warning that it's sometimes worse than period-typical. *sighs*

I can't blame you for avoiding the WW2 books. That's just ... fraught, and I'm not sure if I'd be able to read this kind of genre in that setting.