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Care to explain?Anything by Yefim Gordon
If you're looking for books on Soviet/Russian aircraft written in a form to make the Ministry of Propaganda look like incompetents, this author is for you.Care to explain?
I too would be curious for factual proof as from my experience with a handful of his English translated works, they are pretty decent. Good mix of data and stories. Perhaps the only downside is the lack of footnotes or bibliographies. That being said, I seriously doubt his writings can be put into the category of 'propaganda' for WWII birds. I have been able to verify many of his statements with original documentation. He is a serial author, but a decent one.Care to explain?
We like who we like. I loved his book on MiG 1.42/SU-47 where he wrote they would've been capable of intercepting all the types of NATO weapons incl guided bombs dropped on Yugoslavia.He is a serial author, but a decent one.
Still, you put down the work of a writer.We like who we like. I loved his book on MiG 1.42/SU-47 where he wrote they would've been capable of intercepting all the types of NATO weapons incl guided bombs dropped on Yugoslavia.
I bought 4 of his books. That's 4 books too many, but feel free to keep financing "Yefim." Is there really someone with that name?
In Probert's "defense", he claims that there were two versions of the Zero, the Navy version called Zero and a slightly different Army version that eventually became known by its Allied code name Oscar. That was too much to me, so I did not read the book much further and when the Shores et al. Bloody Shambles Vol. 3 was published I ordered it and I still haven't read more than one seventh of Probert's book."The forgotten air force" by Henry Probert. I read it a long time algo but leave me a bad taste. Quite boring and, IIRC, stated something that the main RAF adversary in CBI was the Zero.
Yes.Facts dear boy. Do you know them?
Ahh ..the wise words of a twad.Yes.
1. You like wasting money
2. You couldn't recognize "Yefim" if he was in front of you
3. You couldn't impress or intimidate a fly
I do not mind some one saying it is a bad writer. I do mind if no reason is given. In this case none.Without taking any side in this pissing match, it should be pointed out that poorly-researched books are worse than nothing being published. Case in point, Fuchida's "memoirs" that stilted the discussion about both Midway and the PH third strike for decades, or the various memoirs from German generals.
Historians too make mistakes. Walter Lord based a bit of his Incredible Victory on Fuchida, so while he sourced his writing, he also took what is clearly -- in hindsight --an incorrect recounting at face value.
I haven't read any of this Yefim's work and have no opinion on it. But I do know that written history can well be wrong. I don't need to have written a book to know that someone else's book can be wrong. That's really a disguised argument from authority, which is of course a fallacy in thinking.
I do not mind some one saying it is a bad writer. I do mind if no reason is given. In this case none.
Not even when asked. That is libelous
Blue is if it's running lean.He was right about blue exhaust flames.
So in your opinion it fine to put down the work of a researcher or anybody for that matter and give no reason what so ever. Like on facebook?
I thought this was a more serious board then that.
Caiden has been proven to be a writer with imagination beyond facts. One can google that one.