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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 299815" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Well, Daniel, what I mean by Essential Historical Narrative--is are the facts of history accurate? Are the events and the people, and the numbers and reasoning behind these larger historical movements and trends accurate?--as opposed to debate over anecdote, de, du, des, and the entymology of the term Infantry. None of those aspects of minutae are relevant to the essential historical narrative. Again, you are welcome to your views, but since I have actually read the book, I am not aware of any inconsistencies with what is generally considered important in learning history. I find focusing on such debatable minutae and anecdote, while dismissing the larger, far more important and essential narrative elements, to be somewhat trivial and pretentious. Whether that puts you specifically in the upper eschelons of the ivory tower, I leave that for you to decide, Daniel.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I just think it is important to actually read the book, and see the "big picture" as well as the details, before dismissing the book as fiction, or not informative. To do so, to me, seems the type of arrogance that someone firmly esconced in the ivory tower would embrace.I could write entire books attempting to summarize the vast amounts of information and detail that Mr. Leckie has written throughout The Wars of America that would be entirely accurate and consistent with any dozen top scholars that you could name that are specialists in the field of World War II, and American history in general. I think that combining the essential historical narrative, with Mr. Leckie's writing style is an excellent contribution to anyone's library--and that achievement is an especially rare one for any scholar on the subject. Again, though, unlike yourself, among others, I am in the priviledged position of actually having read the book, so I think I am armed with a greater degree of knowledge on what exactly is in the book. Do you see what I'm saying?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If Mr. Leckie's style doesn't appeal to you, that of course, is fine, though I think that you are missing out on reading a fine book on American history.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I certainly don't intend to mischaracterize your objections though.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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