Navigation bar
  Home View PDF document Start Previous page
 3 of 20 
Next page End 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8  

FOREWORD BY EDITORS
The historian, amateur or expert, must write from fact; when, where, how and who. From these
must be sifted the necessary ingredients to make our history accurate. To make history readable there is
a need for imagination and a sense of time. In fixing a particular scene or event on paper we need facts
and figures. In order to make the event one with many we need continuity. To one man the landing on
the Normandy beach may by the most memorable event of the first month in France. To another some
happening in July may be the high point; but there is a lapse of thirty days between the two dates – days
equally important to a great number of men. That is our job; to fill the gap not only between dates but
also to recall and record days and dates vital to this history. If there are omissions, remember that there
were no recording machines carried in combat. Our memories are not infallible. Keep in step with us
and you may recall things that you have forgotten. We realize that all have their own stories, own
experiences to relate. To make this writing a personal record we would need a book encyclopedic in
scope. If we can keep this work somewhere between the objective and the personal we shall accomplish
our aim.
The Editors
Previous page Top Next page