re: Anthony Beevor (historian) discusses best war movies

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But as someone who reads a lot of history, they’re able to scientifically confirm a lot of the records.

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It could be true...but the ancients so distrusted historians especially when it came to battles that they'd just dismiss them as exaggerations or sometimes fabrications.

The best tool in war or dominance over a people has always been propaganda. And the victors write the history. There's no objective observers especially back then.

So with that skepticism, almost everyone believed the Trojar War was simply myth. Homer supposedly wrote about it in the 8th century BC and the Greeks surmised it might have occured in the 13th century BC. So that's 500 years later.

Can you imagine writing the history of the Vietnam War in the year 3,000 AD?

But modern scholars have found evidence of Troy and the War and now think it might not be a myth afterall. That it really happened and that's why the story was passed down in oral tradition for centuries before it got to Homer who wrote it down.

The deal is nothing has changed all that much with respect to war reporting. Most journalists are either banned or censored. Everything is a classified. And very little survives after the war but for recollections from those in it.