World War II certainly has a shape and an influence on the
girls in this story, and is as important as the Holocaust itself. The Blitz is
over but we are now into the Baedeker raids where historical cities are getting
hammered. Dunkirk has happened and we’re beginning to recover. The provinces
are no longer immune. The Germans are beginning to suffer in the East and they’re
now talking about the Final Solution though none of the players in my story are
aware of that yet. The readers, of course, most likely will be.
I have a truly useful resource. The War Papers. There are facsimile
newspapers produced in the late 1970s. They are so useful as they supply in the
moment information.
I was looking for some information about June 1942 and found
myself recording the number of each paper on my Timeline chart that pulls the
three strands of my novel together. Most of the dates match exactly! Did I somehow
remember that?
The papers are not ordered chronologically but rather in loose
themes. Sometime later today, I shall finish going through them.
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