I just finished King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild. Now I'm onto The Anatomy of Disgust by William Ian Miller.
Just finished "In Harm's Way" and accounting of the last days of the USS Indianapolis which was sunk just weeks before the end of WWII. Due to bureaucratic inertia and (IMHO) incompetence by the Navy,vno one knew itvhas been sunk, much less were it was or where it was supposed to be The crew survived a week in the water with no water, no food, life jackets becoming waterlogged and ferocious shark attacks.
Now beginning "The Seascape Tattoo", which is a fantasy novel.