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Originally Posted by gmw
...I am not sure at what point I became aware that this was not a true story, but I am fascinated at how well this myth has survived...
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I am not sure how I became aware of the book but someone must have recommended it to me; when I got it a couple of years ago and was trying to find out more about it I got the impression that the myth had well overtaken the book.
When I started reading it I found that to get most from it I had to set my mind to the book being a pure fictional novel and nothing else, otherwise it started coming across to me as a not so good attempt at a historical novel.