Oh goodnes, E, thanks so very, very much. I've never been to Normandy, or held a gun, or jumped from a plane. Writing any war story is totally daunting to someone like me and especially THIS story because it is so well known and has been recounted both as history and historical fiction by so many others who are so very good.
The Fowler book is a very small and missing a lot of the background of Ambrose. Fowler is a very technical sort of person -- he's the one who tries to figure out what Thornton actually shot. He contradicts Ambrose in a few places, too, and I've found that some of the really technical experts take issue with some of Ambrose. But you know, he's got a Pulitzer and the rest of us don't.
So, thank you. Thank you for reading and for bringing your own expertise to the story and finding that it met expectation and was true to the history. I wrote this completely in the dark, with nothing but the source material and have felt something essential lacking, so I really appreciate you taking a bit of your very scarce time to comment.
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The Fowler book is a very small and missing a lot of the background of Ambrose. Fowler is a very technical sort of person -- he's the one who tries to figure out what Thornton actually shot. He contradicts Ambrose in a few places, too, and I've found that some of the really technical experts take issue with some of Ambrose. But you know, he's got a Pulitzer and the rest of us don't.
So, thank you. Thank you for reading and for bringing your own expertise to the story and finding that it met expectation and was true to the history. I wrote this completely in the dark, with nothing but the source material and have felt something essential lacking, so I really appreciate you taking a bit of your very scarce time to comment.