Yeah, the topic is about bias in history texts. For example, A People's History Of The United States by Zinn is terribly biased to the left. Zinn said as much about it. He claimed it to advance a social goal. It is also used as a standard text all over. THAT is bias in history.
"Histories" that make the decision to use atomic weapons against Japan have time and time again, repeated partial information, making it look as if Japan was trying to surrender, and we knew it. What they had was 1/2 the conversation. The Ambassador to the CCCP was cabling home to say they SHOULD surrender, what they do not tell the reader is that the cable back to him basically said, "No. We will bleed them on the beaches first to secure a better deal." So bias gets in there sometimes, and unfortunately, you need to be well read to see it sometimes.
BTW, up the thread someone mentioned Costello's book. I read about 1/3 to 1/2 through one of his, and had been correcting so many errors in my head as I read, I decided I knew more than he did (some of it really dumb stuff like the wrong types of planes being named, etc).
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