![]() ![]() If you look at it in those terms, there’s limitless scope-if you’ve got the curiosity and the right mentality-to go in whichever direction you want. It occurred to me, as I wrestled with my agent and tried to find a new publisher for a change of genre direction, that the Second World War had been the biggest crime scene ever. My writing career took a long detour into crime fiction. The question is why that fascination has been sustained. When I became a writer, I belatedly recognised that this war and the fact that things happen to people-these are plot-led thrillers-became all important. Most of those books had emerged from the Second World War, and they began to fuel my appetite for reading about it. I used to haunt the Clacton-on-Sea library, and I’d come back every weekend with armfuls of books. However, what is incontestable is that things happen to people in wars. I know a lot about wars from my years as a maker of TV documentaries. My mum had been in London under the bombing, and she’d spent many nights in various shelters. That was evident to me, even as a child, and in fact it was the period of his life that he most treasured when he got older. He’d been in the RAF and had quite an exciting time. My dad had fought in that war, as most dads had. Foreign Policy & International Relationsīefore we get to the thrillers you’ve recommended, why do you think we remain so fascinated by World War Two?.The oil embargo placed on Japan by the US threatened Japan's expansion plan for its empire, so while they made diplomatic efforts to get the embargo lifted (on terms to still be allowed to take over desired territories), they prepared for war. They viewed Europe's power through their massive empires, and they emulated by invading and conquering other Asian countries. Because of its very limited resources, Japan realized it needed natural resources to industrialize and compete with the West. With the arrival of Perry, Japan realized they were behind the Western world (Europe and America), and from the start of the Meiji (Enlightenment) Era in 1868, Japan began sending people to Europe and America to learn everything they could in order to catch up with the West. Perry demanded Japan to open to trade with the West. Perry arrived on Japan's shore in 1853, Japan had been a mostly closed country for the previous 250 years, strictly regulating interactions and trade with foreigners. Japan was fully aware of America's power. ![]()
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