France and the French: From the Carthaginians to Napoleon III

By Alan Demaze

Napoleon I has been quoted as saying that "History is a set of lies people have agreed upon." It's another way of saying that "the victors always write History", and, going deeper, that, ultimately, history is simply yesterday's politics, with all the biased insinuations and other underlying suggestions, all so common among power-mongers and their allies, including the media... yes, power games

Separating the wheat from the chaff can be quite a challenge. One way of doing it is to use the principle of the snowball effect, in reverse. It is indeed impossible to tell where any happening will lead, when, or how. However, starting from the outcome and tracking its course backwards, like an investigation, will sooner or later reveal a logical trail. The idea is to reconstruct the original chain of events, proceeding step by step, from the end result upstream towards the triggering event. This, plus a bit of intuition reestablishes the link between causes and consequences, the causality, which is the common denominator of everything that happens, as it says, one thing leading to another...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FB478G89
• ISBN13: 9798285587316
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.0"