Ed Rasimus wrote:
While I don't begrudge her the money, the choice of a questionable
ghost writer, released from the NYT for by-lining a story written by a
free-lancer means the whole project will be discredited.
I see it pretty much the same way. Unfortunately they want to sell the
story while it still has some sizzle.
I think for how to write a story in the "wounded, rescued soldier"
genre, one might look to General Sir John Hackett's _I Was A
Stranger_; he wrote it himself some 30 years after the fact when he
could research what the Germans had been up to.
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Andrew Chaplin
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