Reading a disputed wartime account as a contemporary viewpoint

Have you read From Admiral to Cabin Boy?

Clarke criticizes it as a discredited account but regards it as worth reading for the perspective it preserves.

Clarke criticizes From Admiral to Cabin Boy as a discredited account of the Second World War. Its interest, in this assessment, comes from preserving one person's perspective at the time. He regards the author as poorly informed about events around him and connects that limited knowledge with poor decisions. The distinction is between using the book to understand its author's outlook and accepting it as a reliable explanation of the war.