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Old 11th July 2025, 18:34
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Re: Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain

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Thanks for posting that, but I read that in the PRO in the 1980s.
In a file that wasn't opened to the public until 1996 (my source)? VIP access?

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I'm not going to read through every single sentence in every book that I wrote/co-wrote to answer these two sentences
It's a general question of how you/me/anyone goes about presenting their material in written form so that it's something more than a list of facts.

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He has been denigrated for centuries as a result of Tudor propaganda.
Yes, and one of the things about propoganda is that, where expedient, you use what's already there and if that isn't enough you make stuff up too. It needn't be all true or all false.

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Again, don't try to hang a 'should he' around my neck.
Not trying to, just wondered what you thought of a Battle of Britain book whose analysis impressed me.
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