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RE: Why you don't launch at dusk - 6/20/2007 7:48:06 PM

themattcurtis

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Exactly. The only book I felt the need to be "careful" around was a title on 2nd SS Pnzr. Division where the author kept trying to explain why the Germans felt justified in mowing down the better part of a French village in '44 due to ambushes by the resistance. When the author tells me what I NEED to understand and then just blows the incident off, I don't put any value on his work.

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RE: Why you don't launch at dusk - 6/20/2007 8:58:38 PM

Paul Vebber

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re Leyte Gulf.

The Naval War College Prof that teaches a full course on that battle just put all his class materials into print last year as:

http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Leyte-1944-Preparations-Execution/dp/1557508852/ref=sr_1_6/104-1859636-0099907?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182362082&sr=1-6

Not the best "big picture" treatment, but has details you can get no where else.

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RE: Why you don't launch at dusk - 6/21/2007 7:49:28 PM

LarryP

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I put it on my Wish List. Thanks.

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RE: Why you don't launch at dusk - 6/21/2007 7:53:45 PM

LarryP

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Panther Bait

In my opinion, any history book should be treated as the author's opinion of what happened, and not fact. There is always interpretation made when someone writes about events they did not personally witness, or even for that matter, events that they did witness (from a single point of view). As the reader, you need to internally evaulate what you read and figure out how much faith you want to put in it.

Many history books are not started as a dry recitation of facts or at an attempt to provide all possible interpretations of the events. Instead, they start with the author's theory about how things "really" happened, and the author tries to show how the available facts support his case.

Excellent advice. I will keep this in mind while adventuring off into this new history realm I have entered. History is new to me as I hated it in school. Funny how things change when you get older.