you know the original purpose of post #1 from yours truly was intended just to say "hey... this is a good book... if you are interested in a decent read i recommend it."
i didnt try to sell it as gospel, i didnt lay it on the altar, i just said it was a good book and a fun read.
now you are all more than welcome do disagree with me - i dont really care - thats great... but i'm just making a book recommendation here.
whether or not everything is true, or a little bit fabricated or outright false doesn't change the fact that the book was a good fun read for me and possibly for others.
everyone has an opinion - its how they put that opinion out there.
its much nicer to say "Well, i didnt care for the book because it was not well written and seemed to contain a lot of Werner's personal opinions on the war." (well no kidding right... it is entitled "iron coffins: a
personal account of the German U-Boat Battles of WW2")
but if you just come right out with "Werner Sucks!! he wrote a crappy book that completely twists everything that is true about the U-boat war!!! we should all burn this book!!!"
well to come across that way is just disrespectful... especially when you start to talk trash about whether or not a man who was there actually did anything of merit during the war.
GIVE ME A BREAK... i dont care if he was a military postal clerk throughout WW2.... HE WAS MORE
THERE THAN ANY OF US.
would you really sit in front of a veteran while he was telling his story and call him out on what you think is BS and what is not???