It's typical that the "official" version of events on each side tends to be skewed to favour the home team. One sees this again and again in historical accounts of battles. I've got WWII clippings from British newspapers here from 1939-42 (my father kept them), and it's hilarious now reading some of the false propaganda that was intended to make the British look absolutely splendid, the Germans and Italians look absolutely evil and incompetent, and keep up British spirits on the homefront. I figure the German and Italian papers at the time would have been similarly unrealistic...maybe even worse. ;-)