Frank Foley was an amazing man, could you tell us a bit about him?įrank FoleyHe really was quite an extraordinary man. After all, a year from now the World Cup will be taking place in Qatar, of all places. Unfortunately, we’ve seen that too often with events like the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup, where the organisers and participating countries seem happy enough to turn a blind eye to the excesses of the host country. They were most likely just grateful that the Games were well organised and with state-of-the-art facilities. Was that how it was viewed both prior and during the Games?My sense is that most of the participants probably realised they were being ‘played’ but didn’t really care too much about it. We now view it as unprecedented, a blatant propaganda exercise by Hitler. I relied on my imagination for much of this chapter, helped and inspired – by my research. I try to avoid eye witness accounts of specific events because I’m always concerned that I could subconsciously use those experiences instead of those of the characters in the book. Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the attack on Pearl HarborWith Pearl Harbor I was more concerned to get the details of the day correct, especially the chronology and the names and locations of the ships that were hit by the Japanese.
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