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From: hhm@ihlpy.ATT.COM (Mayo)
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Subject: Re: MacNeil-Lehrer Report on _Bismarck_
Keywords: Historical Fiction
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Date: 29 Jun 89 03:45:03 GMT
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From: hhm@ihlpy.ATT.COM (Mayo)

In article <7778@cbnews.ATT.COM>, miket@brspyr1.brs.com (Mike Trout) writes:
> 

> watch it again, catalog the hordes of errors, and write a kind but firm letter
> to MacNeil-Lehrer.  Among other things, they should be warned that the "Naval
> Historian" they were using as a source doesn't know what he's talking about. 
> 
    Are you sure it wasn,t Martin Caiden? (-: I started reading The Tigers
are Burning last week. The first few chapters were so full of major and
minor errors that I took it back to the library. I wonder why  sloppy
scholorship, that would be intolerable in other fields, seems rampant in
military history.

                                             Larry Mayo