History is very often written, & our understanding of it shaped, by the losers. Case in point: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War (https://en.wikipedi

History is very often written, & our understanding of it shaped, by the losers. Case in point: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_W...).