How useful are sources A and I in helping you understand the success of the D-Day landings?

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Question 3, How useful are sources A and I in helping you understand the success of the D-Day landings?

        Source A was written by Winston Churchill, he was giving this speech to the House of Commons on the 6th of June. Churchill was our present prime minister, and it was his job to reassure the people. He didn't want to cause panic, and therefore this meant he had a hidden agenda to reassure the general public no matter how bad the truth actually was. The date was also a problem. The D-day landings had not actually finished yet. At that time, not all of the landings had actually happened. This meant that Churchill's judgement on how D-day was going was affected. The truth of the matter was that the US had landed in the wrong place and completely missed Omaha beach. There was lots of other fault as well, including the very strong Nazi resistance and the problems with the very treacherous weather.

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This source is not very useful to actually determine the success of D-day. However, it is very useful to say how exaggerated the leaders were, and what the general public believed at that time.

Source I was written by historian A.J.P. Taylor in 1975. A historians job is to ultimately uncover the truth about what happened in the past, Thus being a more balanced source of information. Also, the time at which this was written was about 30 years after D-Day had finished. Therefore this was a good time for an overview to take place. Taylor wouldn't really have ...

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