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

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by John Vasco

2. Everything I have done has been to connect facts to my narrative. And any books regarding combat necessarily produces lists, either in the ongoing flow of the narrative, or as lists of damaged/lost. I really don't know where you are going with this sentence.

4. I liked it. Gave a completely different slant than had been the case before with BoB books. Far better than a certain book that came out recently, IMO.

2. What I mean by a list is what I'm continually stopping myself from doing, just putting down each KTB item, radio message, ORB entry in sequence and letting the reader work it out. I LOVE this stuff but normal readers probably no so much, and so authors craft the raw data into a narrative, trying to make sense of it. Yes, you are trying to not to distort the original but you inevitably do something more than simply compile, e.g. drawing attention to omissions, discrepancies, apparent errors etc. You may even draw conclusions but—and I think we agree here—you do not make stuff up ("Göring would have thought …" etc.).



4. Me too because I found his analysis clear and well-argued.