The other side of the coin - 10 letters from history
History rewrites the past. It doesnt just record what happenedit changes it. With a sweep of the pen, it labels whole nations of people as monsters and villains. It reduces soldiers on the other side to nothing more than mindless cogs in an evil machine.
But every army was made up of people. The soldiers who carried out every atrocity throughout history were just individuals with minds and lives of their own, people who thought they were doing the right thing. It can be hard to wrap your mind around how these people must have seen the world, but the letters they left yield clues
10 letters from the side of history we seldom read- one from a Brit During The American Revolutionary War has a present-day ring to it -
I have read somewhere, and I begin to think it possible, that a whole country as well as an individual may be struck with lunacy, Henry Strachey wrote
https://listverse.com/2018/05/13/10-letters-from-everyday-people-on-the-other-side-of-history/