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Pupils research the real Exercise Tiger disaster (28 April 1944). What actually happened? How many died? When was it declassified? How does this historical knowledge affect your reading of the novel?
Ask pupils to write two short paragraphs: (1) how Lily describes Adolphus after knowing him, and (2) how the US Army's official records might have described him (a rank and number, nothing more). What does the contrast reveal?