: Re: How do disclaimers work for fictional books that are loosely modeled on real events? First: I did look for similar questions and this is the closest one I could find, and it's not quite

@Debbie451

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You're essentially talking about historical fiction.

Susan Elia MacNeal writes the Maggie Hope mysteries, about a (fictional) woman who is raised in America but then goes to work for the British government during WWII as a spy. MacNeal's disclaimer runs thus:

Mr Churchill's Secretary is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are entirely fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the entirely fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

So you specify what's historical and what's not, and disclaim the imaginary part.

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