fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoBeyond Keane's stick-it-up-your-bollocks, there isn't much else to Saipan
All history is to some extent narrative. You cannot tell a story without in some way editing it, reducing it, compressing it. Which means that anybody telling a story about a historical event, particularly one from the relatively recent past, risks outraging those who have studied it or who remember it. Often those complaints are pedantic, trivial, but sometimes they are not. It's one thing to elide two minor characters or to tweak the timeline to simplify a story, quite another to imply misleading motivations.
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