As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.MQuote by Michael Chabon about war
At some point, I stumbled across a reference to a mission the United States sent to Antartica in 1941, just before the war began.MQuote by Michael Chabon about war
Having chosen to set the book during this period, from the first day I was writing, I knew I was going to have to do something about World War Two.MQuote by Michael Chabon about war
I didn't want to go to places that have been written about so many times by people so much more qualified than I, like James Jones and Norman Mailer who lived through it. I was always searching for my own theater of war.MQuote by Michael Chabon about war