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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I do like my historical fiction, if it includes significant real events, to have a postscript that describes where the fiction deviates from accepted history. (The Sharpe novels seem to be good at this.)
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Yes, I agree. All the naval actions in Forester's "Hornblower" series are also based on real events and he too describes what the events that the book was based on were.