Just finished reading Death Star, a rather neat book that follows several characters aboard the Death Star during its construction through to its destruction, including the Chief Gunnery Officer who pulled the switch. Reminds the readers that it was a literal planet with over a million occupants (most not even soldiers; prisoners, slaves, architects, medics, librarians, even civilians running cantinas for the troops, who all died when it blew), only a tiny handful of which complicit with the actions of the empire, even among the soldier population.
Going to start on Darth Plagueis now. The book all about Palpatine's master.