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Land versus sea

August 20, 2008 - 7:20 am - by Richard Fernandez
Michael McNeil
2008-08-21 19:16:15

It’s worth noticing too that the Pelo. war provides an example-that-disproves-the-rule refutation to the supposed truism that “the victor writes the history books.”

Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War — one of the history’s outstanding histories as well as one of the founding documents in the subject of history itself — was written by a member of the losing side.