Cornelius Ryan

The Last Battle

In the acknowledgments, Ryan describes collecting participant accounts alongside military records with a substantial research team. He credits Reader’s Digest with resources and funding, his wife with collation, editing and rewriting, and several editors and translators with shaping the work. The book’s narrative is therefore studied as the credited published work, without attributing every execution to an isolated author.

The book’s own acknowledgments; a description of its stated research and collaboration, not an independent audit of those contributions. · lines 9183–9241