455 HISTORICAL NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Much of this story is true and some of the characters are real, or based on real people.
While some of the events in Ghosts of the Past took place in real life, I have been a bit creative with historical dates in order to accommodate all of the elements I wanted to squeeze into my story. The battle of Narudas and the plot to kill the real person represented as Cyril Blake actually occurred in 1905 (not 1906, as mentioned in the book). Likewise, the Schützenhaus in Keetmanshoop did not open until 1907, the same year much of the railway line from Lüderitz was built, and the Shark Island concentration camp only began taking in Nama prisoners in 1906. For these reasons I decided to split the difference between the three years over which all these even
