Cavak answers “Is this historically correct??”

Makayla Bosma asked this question about The Nightingale:

Is this historically correct??

Cavak Yes for the events and certain facts. Like women resisting and doing espionage work. And Paris being mostly women and strapped for supplies during WWI…moreYes for the events and certain facts. Like women resisting and doing espionage work. And Paris being mostly women and strapped for supplies during WWII.

No for the period accurate culture. Which is better explained by this reviewer than me here: http://starcrossedbookblog.com/2016/0...

Even before finding the blog post above, there were certain eccentricities that stood out to me like the suspicious lack of black market activity, period accurate antisemitism (though this is addressed a few times at least), and the "party-hard" mentality German soldiers had in Paris. I can accept some omissions since it's a work of fiction, but it does lose the setting a little by doing that.(less)

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