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The one where the popular version and the evidence have parted company.

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The one where the popular version and the evidence have parted company.
Book Desk: most popular accounts of the Eastern Front still lean on memoirs written by the losing side after the war, with obvious motives. It's a good case study in how the first available account becomes the standard one.