3 Weeks Later

I knew this would happen... just like you I am reading but run out of time to blog about the books and then I forget what I have read! Okay here are a few I still have hanging around the house.
Two books have come my way that have to do with travelling through time and war. The first is one that I heard about before I purchased it. Titled "Nick of Time" by Ted Bell, this book is hugely popular in other places and is just now making its mark here. Set in 1939 on a small island in the English Channel, Nick's father, a lighthouse keeper, is watching for German submarine activity in the days leading up to the Second World War. Nick is an adventurous boy helping his father but uncovers a very special machine hidden in one of the island's coves. A wonderful mix of history and adventure as an evil pirate travels through time looking for this machine.
History also plays an important part in "Day of the Assassins" by Johnny O'Brien when two English school boys discover a secret in the basement of their school. When trying to evade capture, Jack Christie is thrown back into the past where a plot to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand is going to be stopped. But this assassination is the event that initiates the First World War and if the war is stopped what consequences are there for the later world?
What are you reading today?