There are, however, many ways of writing such books, especially in terms of how close to the factual record one keeps.

Our main challenge was a complex factual record that stretched back more than a century.

The book uses official records, sworn testimony, and government investigations to establish a factual record of events.

The judge also noted a proper factual record and the benefit of full legal argument... are lacking at the present time.

These were factual records recorded whether the compilers of agreed with them or not.