The Randomness of Life

"I knew that if I was going to write about this second world war, I couldn't possibly compete with true historians," he says. "Sometimes the adoption of a, of a randomness or a chancey approach allows you to find things that people who are in the past will never be able to read." He adds: 'Reading around the main story functions as a kind of time machine where you're almost involuntarily pulled back into the time'