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Originally Posted by romansh  Quote:
Originally Posted by tommi atkins In a nutshell, and rather neatly, nobody really knows the trufax on anything. | Agreed up to a point
but..... which would be more accurate/inclusive ...... a text written more or less at the time of the event, or a later text that has available the original text plus other texts that were not available to the older historians?
Admittedly some ofthe original texts that might have available to the early historian, might not be available in later times. |
I know where you are coming from, but twenty mins ago i was sat on the bog reading a history of WW2 written in 1948,(as i invariably do) and marveling at the reporting of operation Barbarossa. The periodical waxed lyrical about Huge german losses, cunning russian tactics and lucky german so-called-victorys.
This was written 7 years after the event about the most comprehensive defeat ever suffered by any nation in the entirety of history.
It was indeed Napoleon who said history is written by the victors. The contemparyness of a source is in no way a measure of validity.A non-partisan position is the safest veiw to read.
The bible is a self licking ice cream cone.