that's how it is in you dealt with your father's difficult moral choice in your third novel the redbreast which dows into the history of no race collaboration and analysis did you feel any conflict of interest when writing it was there any pressure between you as a son and you as a writer. i think that it's. it's impossible to do to try to. remain objective as a writer. at least as a writer of fiction i i don't think that's the point. i don't think there's any meaning in tries easy to stick to such as historical details you have to do that i am what i'm doing is i will pick five different individuals who have different reasons for joining them all says to try at least to give. multiple. views of. what was going on what the future looked like what the political situation was also i have a diversity of very human motives selfish motives political motives. even idealistic motives which were. also why some there and some women joined the losses and thinking they were fighting and fighting for their country and defending the borders when your father made that decision to join the german troops