How to Write a Novel About the Second World War

I suppose a terrible thing is that as a novelist, you're always looking for the telling detail. But you're also looking for to feel authentic in some way. I don't really want to write a story with Nazis and with the sort of full action of the Second World War because I feel that others better equipped than I've done that. There's something about sort of rebuilding Eastern Europe after the Second World war which I think is pretty interesting. And there's a fascinating place in West Berlin... It's that mountain built with rubble from the bombed remains on which they then put the CIA listening station. That's some terrible... I've filmed there. Have you? An amazing place, isn