Well a friend pointed out to me that my book was indeeed abused on a fellow author's website. He scored it a 1 out of 5, although he wanted to give it a zero. This male of the species says that by not calling out "fakes" where we think they are, We do damage to history. Funny he would say such a thing, considering how many times his version of history and fakes has been totally wrong. Maybe he never heard the quote; "History is lies agreed to." We all have a certain slant on history and truth, what we will condone and what we will condemn. I like to fall on the side of not being judgemental, especially when I am not 100% sure. I am of the old belief, innocent until proven guilty. Of course olde England had it the other way 'round and you had to prove your innocence. Anyway, if I have to take a position on any of this, and I really don't, it is to stand in the light, and trust what people tell me, not the dark ugliness of accusations and condemnation.
I thank all of you who bought my book and found it to your liking. It was not intended to be an academic tome on the history of "clandestine stuff" The definition of Clandestine is; "kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit:" Many of the truths about the weapons, manufacturers, operatives and operations are protected by a 100 year secrecy act. So, come 2045 maybe we will all know more about these things. I am now 74 and can hardly wait. It is too bad that we could not have worked together, him with his access to documents and me with access to an extensive collection of the knives. But our polar opposite views on "fakes", and how to deal with that topic, makes it unlikely that will ever happen. This is one example of a knife he declared a fake, without ever examining it. I wish I could be equally prescient. It belonged to a veteran but according to this author the seller and the daughter of the veteran, and the veteran himself were all liars because it is clearly a fake.
I thank all of you who bought my book and found it to your liking. It was not intended to be an academic tome on the history of "clandestine stuff" The definition of Clandestine is; "kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit:" Many of the truths about the weapons, manufacturers, operatives and operations are protected by a 100 year secrecy act. So, come 2045 maybe we will all know more about these things. I am now 74 and can hardly wait. It is too bad that we could not have worked together, him with his access to documents and me with access to an extensive collection of the knives. But our polar opposite views on "fakes", and how to deal with that topic, makes it unlikely that will ever happen. This is one example of a knife he declared a fake, without ever examining it. I wish I could be equally prescient. It belonged to a veteran but according to this author the seller and the daughter of the veteran, and the veteran himself were all liars because it is clearly a fake.
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