So do you imply Bill that to be able to write about something in History you must be from the same nationality than the subject?
If so, there would not be a lot of competent people to talk about anything...
For me, the criteria of a good historian are based on his hability to analyze a situation and on his ability to use as much documentation as he can to explain his views.
Otherwise if I follow your though only a French would be able to write about French history (the Revolution, Napoleon, Campaign of 1940, etc). Same for English, Germans Polish, Austrians, etc...
I remember reading a wonderful Biography on Fouché (Police minister of the French 1st Empire) by Stefan Zweig (an Austrian writer and biographer). And even if the persons weren't from the same period and the same country, language, etc... Zweig was able to feel Fouché in a very convincing way.
After all Americans, British, French, Germans, Chineses, etc. are all human
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