One In A Thousand by Graham Broad is a novel on the life of a captain in the Canadian military who dropped out university to become a pilot. This novel is not only just a biography of his life, but also the author’s thoughts on writing historic story with the information he had and why he put in certain thing and left out others. Not only that, he gives his opinion on what is history and how history can become highly controversial and is always getting updated.
To begin, Captain Alfred Edwin McKay was born in Harrington, Ontario December 27th 1892. He was one of 8 kids from Scottish decent. Eddie McKay was a student athlete at Western university that competed in many sports. After his first year of education Eddie left school to join the military. World War I started around the time Eddie started at Western. To become a pilot in the Canadian military Eddie needed his pilot licence before becoming a military pilot. Eddie ended up attending the Wright …show more content…
This gives the reader an idea of what the authors thought process was like when he was writing this book. History may not be just researching about a historical topic and then writing papers about said topic. It may be more difficult than that depending on how reliable the information that is gathered. It can almost be a science on how the information is gathered or even how to take poor information and making it useful. Even if the information may be incorrect. They may be able to correct it from other resources gathered from the same time. For example, “Eddie McKay’s life required hundreds of hours devoted just to locating sources.” Not only did it take hours to research for sources, but it took a little bit of detective work to find that “we have overwhelming evidence that A.E. McKay travelled to Augusta for flight training and none at all that someone named J.D McKay
To begin, Captain Alfred Edwin McKay was born in Harrington, Ontario December 27th 1892. He was one of 8 kids from Scottish decent. Eddie McKay was a student athlete at Western university that competed in many sports. After his first year of education Eddie left school to join the military. World War I started around the time Eddie started at Western. To become a pilot in the Canadian military Eddie needed his pilot licence before becoming a military pilot. Eddie ended up attending the Wright …show more content…
This gives the reader an idea of what the authors thought process was like when he was writing this book. History may not be just researching about a historical topic and then writing papers about said topic. It may be more difficult than that depending on how reliable the information that is gathered. It can almost be a science on how the information is gathered or even how to take poor information and making it useful. Even if the information may be incorrect. They may be able to correct it from other resources gathered from the same time. For example, “Eddie McKay’s life required hundreds of hours devoted just to locating sources.” Not only did it take hours to research for sources, but it took a little bit of detective work to find that “we have overwhelming evidence that A.E. McKay travelled to Augusta for flight training and none at all that someone named J.D McKay