Book Review: Robert Forsyth: Heinkel Units of World War 2 (published Osprey, July 2018)

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Originally Posted by INM@RLM

But this is the reality of history. Historians have to grade conflicting sources, select the best data and reject some of what they find as either unreliable or downright wrong. They also need to start by going and looking in all the obvious places first to put together some sort of outline as a foundation. Giving detailed sources is also an essential feature.

Ivon, very interesting critique as usual with your reviews - but I have to say that an 'Osprey' is hardly the forum that a 'historian' would use for a 'reappraisal' of accumulated knowledge. The time constraints alone make that proposition simply impractical - the author writing for Osprey has just a few months to come up with four or five 6,000 word chapters. The best to hope for is a decent synthesis of what has gone before. Telling us you can't find the time to write your own book is a bit of a smokescreen -getting it all into under 30,000 words in just a couple of months would be quite simply beyond most people.