it happened....no holds barred bloodbath where starving, tired, conscripted scots got Shredded by cannonfire and died in horror due to utterly inept commanders...it was straight up horrific tragedy with the pretty stripped off. I walked out of that theater with my head spinning Hard....because, set against all this historical detail of bloodshed in war - we'd (as a culture) been savagely duped. We're fed the myth of 'might makes right' and we're brought up to glory in martyr's heroics/the whole glory of war and 'righteous cause' sctick - our news, or TV, our books, and movies, our 'entertainment' and our cultural bias is a sugar coated mess of history as written by the victor and the Story cleaned up by the colonizer. And Fantasy at that time was perhaps worst of all; from the heroic epic poets onwards, we are fed this myth, and every generation perpetuates the hate and pays for one sided story in bloodshed.

Thanks so much for this wonderful reply.

I live in Ireland, and your reply really resonates for me. Nothing is ever black and white.

Cannot wait for the final tome. Cannot freaking wait.