In one of those publishing coincidences, two books came out close together by journalists who had uncovered the tragic stories of their grandmothers’ wars: Hadley Freeman’s House of Glass and Svenja O’Donnell’s Inge’s War. I wrote about them, and the moment in research when you get your hands on a shoebox.

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2020/unpacking-the-shoeboxes-of-history/