In 1902, the great historian Theodor Mommsen was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. At that time, everybody knew that the writing of history is just as creative and fictional as the production of novels or poetry.
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I can’t be bothered to go through the horrid ordeal of ‘looking it up’ but I believe Winston Churchill also won the literature nobel and also for history.
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Just saw the best comment of the day (at least) at marginal revolution on post WWII Germany v Russia, edited by me to apply to the present.
“The Germans stopped acting like Nazis but the Russians have never stopped acting like Soviets.”
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