![]() ![]() wail sounded more like a summons to hell-a string of horrorstricken notes that seemed to arise from the memory of a thousand Ottoman camps, a million Turkish soldiers. Ask Elizabeth Kostova, and she will tell you that history is a story of cruelty, written in blood, repeated in folklore, preserved in architecture and recorded in the notebooks of historians. History is many things, from the story of man’s achievements to the tale of his errors, from the story of evolution to the tale of cultural degeneration. What is history? That is a question that is asked in every introductory class on the subject, and each time the answer is varied and vague. ![]()
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