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Old April 16th, 2008, 10:43 PM
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Default Re: Do you consider History Channel...

Sometimes HC does show statements by recognizable names, I remeber seeing Robert Pipes, Robert Conquest, David Fletcher, James Dunnigan, David Glantz, etc. But I remember Dunnigan saying elsewhere that they do provide long interviews but everything is so edited, cut into ittle pieces and glues again that whatever they say becomes distorted to uselessness.

It's all popular history, non-contencious, everything mellowed down tready to be swallowed by the General Public. And the mistakes? At the beginning it's funny, but when you watch a doc on Kursk (July '43, JULY, I said) and they show snow footage, or the same old PzII films from previous week invasion of Poland I'm already puffing and reaching to switch to something else.

Ah well, it sells so it must be good.

Adam, concerning Wikipedia, I also read the Discussions as well, they do provide a few inklings on credibility. Oh, books! Yes, there are books too, now that you mention it!

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