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

[Steve Coates]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

IMO you are at liberty to infer and interpret provided you make it crystal clear that that’s what you’re doing. What you don’t do is present inference as fact.

Just my two cents. I think that is an entirely reasonable standpoint as all too often, pieces of the jigsaw are missing and providing the basis for that inference is made crystal clear. I will acknowledge that over time others can take what has been written and mangle it.

[edwest2]

A person writing about history for others needs to provide documents for whatever he presents to the reader. That's all. No guesses. No this must have been statements. It's not more than that.

This author has failed as far as this book is concerned. The reader should not be the one stepping over any digressions from the subject. Had it been placed in my hands, certain parts would have disappeared, never to be seen by an audience expecting one whole piece about the subject.