The war played havoc with history-writing after 1940. Not only did a great
curtain of secrecy come down upon performers in the drama of the war, but their
portraits and their actions were presented to us through the movies, the radio
and the press upon a heroic scale as part of the business of selling the
warriors and the statesmen and the war to the people. Their blunders and their
quarrels were blotted out of the picture. Only the bright features were left.
The casual citizen saw them as exalted beings moving in glory across the vast
stage of war, uttering eloquent appeals to the nation, challenging the enemy in
flaming words, striding like heroes and talking like gods.
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