The chief narrative source for the siege Besieging of Bayonne is the `` Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris '' , a contemporary account of events in Spain compiled to celebrate Social_event the feats of Alfonso VII of León and Castile .

In 2015 , the Independent Police Complaints Commission reported Reporting that there was `` evidence of excessive violence Violence by police officers , a false narrative from police exaggerating Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale violence Violence by miners , perjury by officers giving Giving evidence to prosecute Criminal_investigation the arrested Arrest men , and an apparent cover-up of that perjury by senior officers '' .

The Eastern Roman emperor Justinian took this as a pretext to interfere Hindering in Vandal affairs , and after he secured Preventing_or_letting his eastern frontier with Sassanid Persia in 532 , he began Process_start preparing GetReady an expedition under general Belisarius , whose secretary Procopius wrote Writing the main historical narrative of the war .

The narrative was embellished Statement and used Using by various parties to attack Attack each other—by the Palestinians against Israel ; by the Haganah to play Competition down their own role in the affair Killing ; and by the Israeli left Departing to accuse Judgment_communication the Irgun and Lehi of blackening Damaging Israel 's name by violating Preventing_or_letting the Jewish principle of purity of arms .

Post-war writing by senior German officers like Hermann von Kuhl , Gerhard Tappen , Wilhelm Groener and the historians led by the former ( Lieutenant-Colonel ) Wolfgang Förster , managed Preventing_or_letting to establish a commonly accepted narrative that it was the failure to follow the blueprint by Moltke the Younger , rather than German strategic miscalculation , that condemned Judgment_communication the belligerents to four years of attrition warfare instead of the quick , decisive conflict it `` should '' have been .

After hearing Perception_active testimony from eyewitnesses , including other members of Shaw 's group , the inquest Criminal_investigation concluded Statement with a narrative verdict Legal_rulings in October 2010 .

Martha Nussbaum has challenged this narrative , stating Statement that several inquiries Criminal_investigation have found Know that the conflagration Catastrophe was an accident Catastrophe rather than a planned conspiracy Committing_crime .

Another study finds Know that the accounts from the time offered Supply different accounts of the executions , though agreed Agree_or_refuse_to_act on the skeletal narrative .

Developing Cause_to_make_progress the plot of the Dominion War also altered Change how the series was scripted , shifting Change the emphasis from an episodic to a serialized narrative format .

Despite only referring to these eighteen days , the war narrative forms Coming_to_be more than a quarter of the book , suggesting its relative importance within the epic , which overall spans decades of the warring families .

The narrative describes Statement individual battles and deaths of various heroes of both sides , military formations , war diplomacy , meetings and discussions among the characters , and the weapons used .

The events were the subject of Alfred , Lord Tennyson 's narrative poem `` The Charge Judgment_communication of the Light Brigade '' ( 1854 ) , published Publishing just six weeks after the event .