Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by edwest2

No professional historian would write such tripe.

Here I would differ, Ed. Historians attempt to interpret and draw conclusions from incomplete data, the proviso being that you must acknowledge that this is what you are doing. I think the words John quotes are how a PhD candidate might close a thesis. As a teacher put it to me, the structure was 'say what you're going to say / say it / say what you've said'.