CERTAIN ELEMENTS OF AFTER Midnight are based on fact. The near-suicidal supply drops over Warsaw from Foggia in Southern Italy by the RAF and the SAAF (South African Air Force), the loss of Liberator bombers in the Italian mountains—one of them still missing, sixty years later—Mussolini’s puppet regime at Salò and Villa Feltrinelli, the Red Stocking missions, the sealed trains at Chiasso and the Republic of Ossola, centred on Domodossola near the Swiss border, are all true.
As is the letter written from Foggia by an Australian airman to the one-year-old daughter he had never seen.