Originally Posted by
budwom
Indeed, it is fascinating. And by happenstance, my robust 100 page history magnus opus (who doesn't love history majors?) was on the decision to drop nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...needless to say, Toll has access to gobs of stuff I never had access to in 1971. Too many histories are written without sufficient information from the side of the losers.
As in, "the winners write the history books?"
Sage Grouse
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