Аннотация
Manifest Destiny
Brian Garfield
For Jane and Thomas
in memory of John
A Note
“All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.”
—Anatole France
“Some events do not occur at the right time, and others do not occur at all. It is the proper function of the historian to correct these faults.”
—Herodotus
Let me take you into my confidence.
This book is a novel about real people and real events. It relates a true story—by Herodotus’s rules.
All the characters lived; virtually all the significant events took place. The tale is based largely on the recollections and writings of actual participants. But in the attempt to put history in tidier order, I have oversimplified and rearranged.
Every person who is named in the book was real, except for a hotel guest whose stolen watch is a fictitious invention; a few characters, however, are composites of more than on...
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