If Hitler had been a better historian we would be speaking German now and Hitler’s soldiers could have avoided the inhuman suffering, described in ‘All Hell Let Loose’ by Max Hastings, had he studied the mistakes made by Napoleon 129 years earlier when he sent his ill equipped Grande Armée deep into the frozen heart of Mother Russia. History is more than just the study of the past; it allows us to understand the present and it also shapes the future.
The imaginary exploits of the Sultan Saladin, as told to me by my grandfather, became fact when I read ‘The Crusades through Arab Eyes’ by Amin Maalouf as part of an extended research essay on the attempts of Muslim leaders of the 11th and 12th century to unite against the “Franj”. Having examined
The imaginary exploits of the Sultan Saladin, as told to me by my grandfather, became fact when I read ‘The Crusades through Arab Eyes’ by Amin Maalouf as part of an extended research essay on the attempts of Muslim leaders of the 11th and 12th century to unite against the “Franj”. Having examined