Indeed, even today there are good historical books being written about events as far away as WWII. And I'm not talking about new books that restate old research

Indeed, even today there are good historical books being written about events as far away as WWII. And I'm not talking about new books that restate old research, often they'll have unique insight to provide from detailed historical study on topics that had been incorrectly assumed to be fully fleshed-out.