>The notion of a campaign that began
>with the amphibious assault at Normandy
>as a 'mopping up' operation is creative.
>Pity no left historians have caught on
>to this. Only Jones. I wonder what
>Herbert Aptheker would say.
While Shirer may not have the necessary credential for your historian, he was a contemporary reporter and journalist and my recollection of his view is not very different from this characterization.