Compressed version > We say that history is written by the winners. That is sometimes true. We have no Carthaginian accounts of their war with Rome; few histor

Compressed version > We say that history is written by the winners. That is sometimes true. We have no Carthaginian accounts of their war with Rome; few historians today have much sympathy for Hitler. But the thread that seems to connect many of the great histories of the pre-modern world is that they were written by the losers.