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Stealhead · 02-02-12, 02:43 PM

Boy I am I glad that I get my historical information from the most trusted source The History Channel.

Personally I think any "historian" is going to have some bias one way or another which is why the person digesting the information needs come in expecting there to be some angle this is why it is best to read about a given topic from multiple points of view(short of blatantly biased stuff) if you read every angle you can better understand the "truth" as they say.

I always like accounts written by ones that where there such as E.B. Sledge
just a person telling what they saw and did nothing more.

By they way some what related to the topic has anyone every seen the film "City of Life and Death" it is about Nanking in 1937 it a Chinese film but the Japanese
are all Japanese actors interestingly enough.

I don't know if this is the case with every Japanese but my friends wife is Okinawan and she obviously went to Japanese schools and they are taught a very revisionist
view on Japans role in WWII.

02-02-12, 02:43 PM	#56
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Boy I am I glad that I get my historical information from the most trusted source The History Channel. Personally I think any "historian" is going to have some bias one way or another which is why the person digesting the information needs come in expecting there to be some angle this is why it is best to read about a given topic from multiple points of view(short of blatantly biased stuff) if you read every angle you can better understand the "truth" as they say. I always like accounts written by ones that where there such as E.B. Sledge just a person telling what they saw and did nothing more. By they way some what related to the topic has anyone every seen the film "City of Life and Death" it is about Nanking in 1937 it a Chinese film but the Japanese are all Japanese actors interestingly enough. I don't know if this is the case with every Japanese but my friends wife is Okinawan and she obviously went to Japanese schools and they are taught a very revisionist view on Japans role in WWII. Last edited by Stealhead; 02-02-12 at 02:55 PM.