you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, a distillation of rumor, or, as Napoleon said, a set of lies generally agreed upon
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About James Alexander Thom, The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction: Researching and Writing Historical Fiction
James Alexander Thom, The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction: Researching and Writing Historical Fiction.
Themes
- History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation