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Topic	Just read a book on WW2 and damn they didnt teach us shit
HannibalBarca3 11/04/23 12:43:32 PM #100:	Foppe posted... The winner writes the history books. Not always. Consider the prominence of concepts like the "clean wehrmacht", the superior German Army and the orientalist depiction of the Soviet military as a numerous "Asiatic horde" throwing their men's life away for ww2 or the lost cause for the American Civil War. You also have examples like Herodotos of Halikarnassos whose city was part of the Greek coalition crushed by the Persians during the Ionian revolt or Thukydides the Athenian who wrote about the "Peloponnesian War" which saw Athens defeated by Sparta. --- Aut viam inveniam aut faciam. Will not change sig until the Tsar is put back in the Russian throne (July 08, 2010) <cite>HannibalBarca3 posted [p:977028897] in Just read ... [t:80609210]...</cite> <quote>Foppe posted... </cite><quote>The winner writes the history books.</quote>Not always. Consider the prominence of concepts like the "clean wehrmacht", the superior German Army and the orientalist depiction of the Soviet military as a numerous "Asiatic horde" throwing their men's life away for ww2 or the lost cause for the American Civil War. You also have examples like Herodotos of Halikarnassos whose city was part of the Greek coalition crushed by the Persians during the Ionian revolt or Thukydides the Athenian who wrote about the "Peloponnesian War" which saw Athens defeated by Sparta. --- Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.Will not change sig until the Tsar is put back in the Russian throne (July 08, 2010)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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