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Wootcannon
Jan 23, 2010

HAIL SATAN, PRINCE OF LIES

Seven Hundred Bee posted:

To learn about what it was like to be an American solider in the war, check out Paul Fussel's Wartime.

On that note, what's your opinion on Guy Sajer? I always saw it as a group of historians used to fervently examining every detail getting pissy that someone who was actually there didn't double-check every recollection of uniform minutiae.

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Wootcannon
Jan 23, 2010

HAIL SATAN, PRINCE OF LIES

Seven Hundred Bee posted:

in general memoirs are poor historical resources.

Yeah, that's why the controversy seemed so unusual to me. Cheers for replying.

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