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Originally Posted by Cohaagen
It's bad enough that American popular history writes their allies out of conflicts (British in WWII, Australians and Kiwis in Vietnam, UN in Korea, coalition in GW1, etc) without writing themselves into wars they had almost nothing to do with.
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I keep hearing this complaint, usually from the English and it is starting to get irritating.
First off you say "American popular history" like it's a government department but you know that it's not. If we were to try to force total historical accuracy on writers and movie makers they would rightly scream free speech infringement.
Nor are British writers immune from doing the same thing. Case in point I saw the classic British movie "Battle of Britain" the other day but not once were any foreign members of the RAF depicted except the Poles. That's 284 men who risked life and limb to help defend England from the nazi scourge and the makers of that movie ignored their contribution. Should we blame British popular history for that oversight?
Educated folks on both sides of the pond know that WW2 was a team effort and to me that is good enough.