Heard of that one. No, haven't read it. If i remember right, i thought about it but the Foreward was looking to support an argument rather than reveiw the historical events

The Myth of German Villainy is a decent book

i think it lacks sources though

most books these days do

short form books realy

design for the masses

i mean, i'm from the days when if you cited wikipedia, your paper was dismissed out of hand

if wikipedia is valid, THEY have sources somewhere. track these down and cite them AND their sources

wikipedia is a joke these days

always was in my view

There are a lot of wikipedia sources that are literally just advertisement sites now

The older citation domains get bought up and replaced

there was a period when it was ok, but hte marxist moved in and re-wrote all the articles

I still have an old article on the peasants revolt saved

well, the academic community as a whole suffers from the problem that those papers that are POPULAR receive the most citations

it was rewritten and framed from a marxist perspective

and the more citations a paper has, the more credibility it is give

so it's a feed-back loop

it was essentially an anti-tax protest but the wikipedia article now states it was an early example of marxist revolution lol

yea the sources they accept are left wing media sites

which use wikipedia as their source

that drives me crazy when people go back and spin events to suit a particular narrativ

i guess that is history in a nut shell

the trick to learning history is learn which perspective the person who wrote it had and interpret it with a grain of salt.

well, there is a difference between documenting an event and interpreting an event

there is a fine line

from one side they were attacked, from the other they were attacked

used to be because it took TIME and MONEY to compile the history, there were MUCH fewer sources and thus they were held to a higher standard

when less people controlled the narrative it was easier to control

today, the internet devalues things like truth and art

its easier to read history as objectively as possible. the treaty of versaille crippled germany to the point of desperation

and you basically get what happens in the Dark Knight

it was HARDER to control actually

dont salt the earth

you have to go back to the 1800s to understand ww1 and 2

the abandoned child will burn his village to feel its warmth, etc

how is it harder to control?

that is why the church and monarchy didn't like the printing press

because if you are a gate-keeper and everyone has to come to you for information, all eyes are on you making it VERY hard for you to lie and get away with it continually

they didn't want to lose control over the narrative