More research...
Didn't get as much done on Sunday as I would have liked -- Slept badly and got up late, so I felt off all day. But I did get some things done -- finished one of the books I'm using for research. It's "No Ordinary Men -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (DB) and Hans von Dohnanyi (HvD): Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State" by Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern. It's okay -- I've certainly gotten some good information from it, but it dealt too much with the religious struggles of Bonhoeffer. Important enough I suppose if DB was a major character in the novel, but he isn't. HvD is much more important, and there was significantly less about him in the book. Still, it's more than I had.
Yesterday I didn't get much done, either. Put a screen door on the front of the house and it was way more of a pain in the ass than I'd hoped. Had to cut down the vinyl door, and then had to go back several times to shave more off the door to make it fit into the door frame. Finally got it done, but was tuckered out afterward.
I did start on another research book -- Herbert Werner's "Iron Coffins" -- a first-hand account of U-boats. Doing research on that because one character is a submariner. It's really good, unlike one of the other books I've got on my list. That one is Hans Gisevius's "To the Bitter End," which is a first-hand account from a survivor of the resistance and the 20 July plot. You'd think that'd be really good, and there is certainly good information in it, but the author was an ass, self-centered, and very definitely seeing himself as the center of the resistance (hint: he wasn't). He even talked smack about the others involved at the Nuremburg trials when they were dead and unable to contradict him. He's a name mostly because he was the one in contact with Allen Dulles of the OSS during the war. I'm also reading another book -- Robert Gellately's "Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany," which is excellent, but dense. Gives me a lot of info about the workings of the Gestapo, but I can only read a certain amount at a time. Easier to read than the 500-page book in French on the Inquisition that I had to read in grad school but harder than a David Eddings novel.
Which makes me think that I need to find some fiction to read to give me the occasional break from the research. But it's kind of hard to find something that I'm going to enjoy as much as the research.