Having set it in the year of the Falklands war, Mitchell makes much in the book of getting the songs, TV programmes, the biscuits and cigarettes right.

• 此书背景是马岛之战，为使书中涉及到的歌曲、电视节目、甚至点心和香烟之类与之相吻，米切尔颇费了一番心思。