I've heard of 'Allo 'Allo, like Are You Being Served and It Ain't Half Hot Mum, but I don't think I've ever seen any... It's certainly a new take on 'research'! (I went and read Dennis Wheatley in order to get the flavour of some 'heroic' fictional adventures under the Occupation rather than the high body-count real life ones. Alan Furst is rather more modern and downbeat.)
I've ended up doing a ridiculous amount of research for this Arctic thing, as well; just today I discovered that my invaluable 1910 encyclopaedia has an entire extra volume of maps (showing 'European Russia' extending up to the borders of Austria-Hungary and Bessarabia) and statistical tables showing the relative populations of cities of the British Empire and the times taken to journey from England to various places, and from which port. Apparently it was only reckoned to take five days to reach Iceland from London in 1910, and 55 hours to Denmark; of course my characters are travelling thirty years earlier, which makes a difference. (They're crossing the Baltic by sailing packet, for a start...)
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It's certainly a new take on 'research'!
(I went and read Dennis Wheatley in order to get the flavour of some 'heroic' fictional adventures under the Occupation rather than the high body-count real life ones. Alan Furst is rather more modern and downbeat.)
I've ended up doing a ridiculous amount of research for this Arctic thing, as well; just today I discovered that my invaluable 1910 encyclopaedia has an entire extra volume of maps (showing 'European Russia' extending up to the borders of Austria-Hungary and Bessarabia) and statistical tables showing the relative populations of cities of the British Empire and the times taken to journey from England to various places, and from which port. Apparently it was only reckoned to take five days to reach Iceland from London in 1910, and 55 hours to Denmark; of course my characters are travelling thirty years earlier, which makes a difference. (They're crossing the Baltic by sailing packet, for a start...)