GUEST - 10 Dec 15 - 03:38 AM

They have to be still alive too

Unlike every single fucking first hand account.

The "first hand accounts" are extremely valuable in studying the period - but only as snap-shots.

Most were written 1918 - 1929, some probably later from diaries kept at the time. The authors of these works are writing about THEIR experiences and those books were not written with any access to;

1: Restricted and Classified British Government papers relating to the subject, the last of those are only now being released.

2: Restricted, classified and untranslated papers from Belgian, French, German and Russian sources

The accounts you refer to apply to the small picture and are one sided so although they do give important information they do not give the whole picture.