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Originally Posted by issybird
I'm really enjoying this as a window onto the 1930s. That said, you have to be conversant with the history of that era or do a fair amount of googling. I wondered whether a reference to Manchukuo, for one example, would register with some modern readers.
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This is one (of many) reasons that I try to avoid reading historical novels, or novels set in other time periods, as pbooks -- the ease of instantly looking up references either in the Chambers Dictionary or on Wikipedia whilst reading on a tablet or ereader.