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Originally Posted by cali03boss
lol you guys base your pacific theatre realism on a book written by a historian who only specializes in u-boats?
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what are you talking about? The guy has written 20+ books and only two about U-boats. And it was really just a single piece of work with two volumes. not to mention the fact that he wrote Silent Victory in 1975, 20 years before his U-boat book(s).
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btw...historians know historians...
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apparantly you don't or you wouldn't say:
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and though he served in the pacific he specializes in German U-boats
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which is decidedly untrue. Considering he only has two works on WWII submarines out of his entire body of work, I don't see how you could even begin to argue this point let alone make a such a definitive statement.
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Clay Blair has been a contested voice in World War two history for quite some time now. Most of what he has said reguarding the patrols and tactics of the British Navy are completely false...and have been corrected by both the British government and former British admirals.
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show us criticism of Silent Victory in that regard. The worst things I have read about this book is that it contains too many details and not enough commentary. It seems like half the book is quotes from patrol reports.
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And Blair will always remain a 2nd-rate historian.
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Even if he is a "2nd-rate historian", Silent Victory is sourced almost entirely from patrol reports, which is what people in this discussion are basing their statements on. It's not that Blair said that skippers routinely made shots from 2000+ yards, it's that Blair quotes the patrol reports of the skippers themselves.