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Originally Posted by MontyB You do realise books are translated/released in multiple languages I assume?
As it goes how would those books be anymore accurate on a particular subject than the English, German, French, Italian, Spanish or Chinese translation of the same book, 1000, 100,000 or 1,000,000 is exactly the same in any language.
on top of this which book would be more accurate a Russian statistical breakdown or a German one of the same battle or heres a thought perhaps they are both one sided and lacking all the information.
However no matter how you look at it if your sole knowledge on a subject is from books and anecdotal evidence then in the end you are still just parroting someone else's opinion as the only people who can lecture us on the context of these battles are those that actually were there at the time. |
Are you really this naive? Obviously books are translated, even more obvious is that the amount of books out there in Russian in regards to the "Great Patriotic War" surpass the abilities of translators and even worse the fact that many publishers are simply not interested in publishing them. I have hundreds of Soviet/Russian books, document collections, etc, that will never be translated into English. You can stop going off on tangents now. I do not proclaim myself better than anyone else, but, I will judge you based on what you write in regards to the Eastern Front. What you profess on a forum says more than enough about what you've read and how much you know. If you were a Russian, German, Spaniard, or anyone else, my opinion would solely be dictated by what you write.