Sorry about the paragraphs,or lack of,my train of thought was distracted by trying to recall actual reading material to do with the subject at hand
Won't happen again
Oh I would agree with you that he may have embroidered his tales a bit,that is natural and has been a part of old soldiers tales since warfare began,but having read some books recently it seems endemic right from the top down.
I don't think anyone person during the war was ever in possession of the full facts regarding any matter you care to choose,
Just regarding the Atlantic war you get the allies lying to the public about the early disasters at sea,you get Donitz lying to the Hitler and exaggerating the successes in order to get better funding for the U-boat program,
And you get Donitz Lying to his crews about there losses and about they're sinking's tally in order to make them try harder
Its no wonder that people who were actually there experiencing all that going on being totally confused then and more so later
I think as long as the reader is intelligent enough to read with an open mind and take on board the circumstances in which all the events took place,and there place in time,then I don't see the need to criticize to harshly,
the fact remains that we weren't there,we don't know what it was like,and 99.9% of historians don't either,although sometimes they would have you think otherwise by the way they write and by the uncalled for accusations they so cheaply throw around
