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On Feb 18, 9:27*am, Jorge <jo...@jorgechamorro.com> wrote:
> On Feb 17, 11:07*pm, Scott Sauyet <scott.sau...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Of course autobiographies are useful. *But you'd better expect that
> > there are glosses over the less flattering aspects of the author's
> > life. *Some of these are intentional, but others are simply due to
> > failures of memory.
>
> Exactly the same thing can do/happen when/if the "historian" is a 3rd
> person.

For example, the Spanish Civil War as told by Paul Preston is a fairy
story (read:fabrication, invention, fiction), the one by Stanley G.
Payne is radically different but closer to the facts, and there's also
the one by Ricardo De la Cierva, which depicts the truth much better
than these outsiders, for obvious reasons.
--
Jorge.