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Originally Posted by Subnuts
I was just looking through my review of "Iron Coffins" and noticed this passage:
It was much to my surprise, then, that a recent discussion of this book on the forum ended in a prolonged flame war.
Shame I didn't include any ironic statements about history repeating itself.
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Nah, in other threads before lots of people have stated that it is a work of absolute truth and it all did happen and people were just saying it wasn't true because they were jealous of Werner's l33t hax0r skillz or something. (I'm paraphrasing).
Now, it's an argument over whether the book is the work of a mentally ill man, or whether he wrote a book bigging himself up for personal gain, or whether Werner ever claimed it was true and is the victim of a publisher twisting the introduction.
No one's arguing over whether it's true or not, it seems to have been agreed upon that it is a good read, but not representative of the career of Werner, but an amalgamation of what perhaps other commanders went through. I haven't read it yet, but I'm pleased that it will be a 'good read' when I do, but won't be taking it as gospel. Thanks for posting the OP.