What is so often forgotten, when friends write in giving their opinons on various operations, and indeed, battles.
Is their total inability to understand the atmosphere pf war in which these operations take place. It really is a matter of; you have to experience the battle or what is taking place "At that time"
No author, writer, or comentator, can ever really know that what he is writing about has anything but the very faintest tenuous thread with actuallity.
That is why, for many years, I have written about those times, and at the same time, to ensure that the memory of my fallen friends will not be forgotten.
I am sometimes quite staggered at the innuendo that passes for fact. Or the reshaping of history, so that the real events fade into the background to be superceded by Authors, or Hollywood versions.
The Veterans find what certain Authors have wriiten, as absolute nonesense, some times with whole divisions lost! and units put in places where in truth they never got within miles of the area in question.
Most of us feel we are fighting a losing battle, a battle lost to some author sitting in a cosy chair writing about something they know absolutely nothing about, and in the process fulfill thei predujices.
Sapper
