About the book: 2017 / Historians are people who tell us about events that took place in the distant, and sometimes very distant, past. But how do they know what happened then? Ask them about this, and they will begin to proudly talk about how they rummaged through the archives for months, how they “shoveled through” tons of all kinds of primary sources, etc., etc. And what are these primary sources? These are just other people's stories about these events. Based on the same “eyewitness accounts,” they can put together completely different pictures. And they do, but what would they do without it. We love fairy tales about brave heroes and beautiful princesses - so why don’t we like our own story, full of mysteries and intrigues? There are real people at work here, and good does not always win. But what characters! What personalities!