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Re: Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
Major requirements for a reliable historian:
-he must allow the reader to see the foundation of his research=reference note
-his main duty is provide understanding and causalities on past events without bias or any attempt to further any current-day agenda; he is not a judge
-his research must go from bottom to top, in other words, he must never take the end result as the starting point and work backwards
-he must never resort to anachronism
-he must never evaluate the actions based on later day information (information that was not available to actors of that event)
-the possible conclusions must be in line with the evidence provided in the research and be logical (if evidence says X, one cannot conclude Y)
-sources must be critically treated; for example, is a diary entry made the same day as the event occurred treated perhaps as more reliable than a reminiscence 50 years after the event
-he must stick to relevant issues
Based on the examples referred to by Vasco, it seems Taylor failed on more than one hurdle.
Based on Vasc
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