What Isn't History?

An award-winning historian’s guide to writing about history, in both fiction and nonfiction.   Is history absolute? Is writing about the past an exact science, or is it more of a nebulous discipline open to different interpretations and points of view? These are important questions that noted historian Ian Mortimer says all serious writers of history must reflect on.   This new collection explores those ideas, providing an analysis on how the immensity of chronicling the past lends its