 This myth was founded in the factual knowledge of the immigrants ' participation in the battles , and the mythical knowledge because of the differences in the number of victims , the leaving of the injured on the fields of battle , and that the Latrun battle was the hardest and most important in the war . The influence on written history appeared primarily in books and commentary , where " the immigrants wanted only to make sure that their contribution at the battle was written in the collective memory with a plus sign " . It didn 't bring new documents but it expressed itself in memoirs , reminiscences and obituaries by or of those involved in the events . It was a view that was seldom heard in polemics giving two preceding versions of events but that had a life of its own , given to it by the immigrants . 
