There is a saying that the winners write the history books. People are generally more likely to want to talk about success rather than defeat. There are examples of heroic defeat in history, but it is far less common than the so called glorious victory.Yes, I do think the winners write the history books.
the saying history is written by the victors means that if you won you killed everybody else so you can say what goes in the books
There is a saying that, history is written by the victors! So the victors can be said to be biased (ie leaning towards their version of events).
The compact was written by the pilgrims saying that they were creating self government
The Thucydides changed the way history was written by using documents and eyewitness accounts to help him.This is how the Thucydides changed the way history was written.
Perhistory
It is important to study history to fully understand how civilization has evolved to the present time. There is an old saying that history repeats itself. studying history helps us to prevent mistakes which were made in the past from being repeated in the future.
Victor Mays has written: 'Pathway to a village' -- subject(s): History
Victor Warrender has written: 'The Warrender papers' -- subject(s): History
Victor S. Clark has written: 'History of manufactures in the United States'
Victor Howells has written: 'A naturalist in Palestine' -- subject(s): Natural history
Leonard Victor Huber has written: 'New Orleans, a pictorial history' -- subject(s): Pictorial works, History
Victor Brooks has written: 'Last season of innocence' -- subject(s): Nineteen sixties, Teenagers, History
Victor Tcherikover has written: 'Ha- Yehudim be-Mitsrayim' -- subject(s): Jews, History
Victor Chapot has written: 'The Roman world' -- subject(s): Antiquities, History 'Le monde romain' -- subject(s): Histoire, History
Victor Peters has written: 'Nestor Makhno' -- subject(s): Anarchism and anarchists, Biography, History
Victor Lerch has written: 'Four wheels to freedom' -- subject(s): Biography, Jews, Holocaust survivors, History
Victor-Emmanuel Largeau has written: 'A la naissance du Tchad' -- subject(s): Colonization, History
Victor Paulin has written: 'Guerre d'Italie en 1859' -- subject(s): History, Italy War of 1859