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<blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 2365836" data-attributes="member: 26473"><p>My 'pleasure reading' for the last six months has been books about Algeria, so I've got quite a backlog of this stuff. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> </p><p></p><p>It's tough at times, sorting out the facts - I'm never 100% sure if I've got it right. Some of the materials contradict each other, sometimes in really surprising ways: you'd think that an event like the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt in 1956 (covered in our upcoming adventure, <em>Musketeer</em>) would be pretty well recorded, and yet I can't find any two sources that agree with one another on who did what where! The official history of the British Para Regiment says one thing, a British book on the battle says another, Porch's Legion history says something else, an Israeli history doesn't jibe with any of them, and no two websites seem to agree with any of the books <u>or</u> each other! I mean, it's not like this happened in the Bronze Age! There was television, radio, newspapers, official after-action accounts - it's not like there's a lack of source material... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /> </p><p></p><p>My goal is just a (hopefully) believable illusion. Most of the encounters are inspired by history - a few are entirely fictional, "might-'ve-beens." I'm hewing as close as I can to what I consider the more reliable sources to get details like organization, Legion life, and so forth. Everything else is how I imagine it might have been. :\</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Shaman, post: 2365836, member: 26473"] My 'pleasure reading' for the last six months has been books about Algeria, so I've got quite a backlog of this stuff. :heh: It's tough at times, sorting out the facts - I'm never 100% sure if I've got it right. Some of the materials contradict each other, sometimes in really surprising ways: you'd think that an event like the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt in 1956 (covered in our upcoming adventure, [i]Musketeer[/i]) would be pretty well recorded, and yet I can't find any two sources that agree with one another on who did what where! The official history of the British Para Regiment says one thing, a British book on the battle says another, Porch's Legion history says something else, an Israeli history doesn't jibe with any of them, and no two websites seem to agree with any of the books [U]or[/U] each other! I mean, it's not like this happened in the Bronze Age! There was television, radio, newspapers, official after-action accounts - it's not like there's a lack of source material... :confused: My goal is just a (hopefully) believable illusion. Most of the encounters are inspired by history - a few are entirely fictional, "might-'ve-beens." I'm hewing as close as I can to what I consider the more reliable sources to get details like organization, Legion life, and so forth. Everything else is how I imagine it might have been. :\ [/QUOTE]
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