The stories that make up the series are historically accurate in their setting and details, though the characters are invented.

In The Good Son we recreated a propaganda drawing by Évariste Carpentier from 1914 which symbolised the first widely reported atrocity committed by the German Army when they invaded neutral Belgium.

There were numerous all-too-real atrocities committed after the German Army invaded neutral Belgium and they included shooting civilian hostages. This drawing depicts the German execution of civilians in Blégny – a town in eastern Belgium near Liège. Only two days after launching the invasion, the 16th RI of the Imperial German Army reached Blégny (April 6). They shot 19 civilians and destroyed 40 houses. This was the first widely reported German atrocity and the beginning of what became known as the ‘Rape of Belgium’. This was a well documented action because it took place in front of a church while the people of the town watched. Arguably even worse, however, was that the German Army seized the civilian food supply. Had America not mounted a massive relief operation, the Belgians would have starved.