Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, Stefan Zweig, Beware Of Pity

Two books I really enjoyed, and with a rather depressing connection - both are concerned with the end days of great civilisations (the Roman Empire and Austria-Hungary) under assault from the book-burners and intolerant zealots. Horrible that this should ring so true in our era of Brexit and Trump.