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I wouldn't be too critical re editing. All of these manuscripts should be seen by a proofreader and editor before going to the publishers so if there are typos, then there is someone else to blame.

I accept it doesn't impress to see the sorts of errors you describe, but I find them much less disturbing than say errors in fact, which turn me right off any text, I'm afraid.

Also, re writing skills, Glantz may not be an Anthony Beevor or Max Hastings, but then neither was Erickson. However, both men had put in countless hours of research into previously unknown and innaccessible archives. I'll take them warts and all if the alternative is ignorance.

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IronDuke

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Also, re writing skills, Glantz may not be an Anthony Beevor or Max Hastings, but then neither was Erickson. However, both men had put in countless hours of research into previously unknown and innaccessible archives. I'll take them warts and all if the alternative is ignorance.

Regards,
IronDuke

The thing about all those who've been through the Soviet's archives is that each admits that none has yet found the final story of their various pursuits. There are still futher archives to wrench open from the governments. And due to the Cold War, many may never be.

I always laugh regarding how impressed William Shirer's introduction to "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" once made me, when he wrote akin: "Most historians frown on writing history until at least the passage of a century but in the case of the Third Reich so much has been revealled at its collapse that the definitive history may now be written".

Adam.

The books on the war in China and against Japan are usually the worst when it comes to typos, e.g. names not transcribed consistently, misspellt or town names anachronistic. Maps of the USSR suffer from it a bit too but I suppose its difficult to keep track of all the town name changes as people fall in and out of favour.

So no one has read the Ziemke books then?

Who was the first historian to discover the existance of Operation Mars ?