Mustafin O. Troubles that Determined the Fate of Peoples Book

Alexei Mustafin is a well-known Ukrainian journalist and media manager. He is a historian by profession. 

"The Troubles that Determined the Fate of Nations" is a book about the shadow side of history, about what is shy and usually left out of national histories. Defeats are not proud of, they are not recalled, they try to forget. But isn't that experience more instructive and useful than the joy of victories? About illusions and miscalculations - conscious and not very conscious, about the false choice for which a high price was paid, about the traps into which states fall in search of their place in the world. Is it possible to gain freedom at the price of independence? Why invite future colonizers in? Why did the shortest war in history last only 38 minutes? Why gold for those who can make money out of thin air? What is the danger of believing in secret conspiracies? And how do you make your subjects allies of foreign invaders? Byzantium and Carthage, Haiti and New Zealand, Britain and China. Whose mistakes the Ukrainians had better learn from in order to prevent their own... 

Earlier books by Alexei Mustafin "The True History of the Ancient World" (2013), "The True History of the Middle Ages" (2014), "The True History of Early Modern Times" (2014), "The True History of Late Modern Times" ( 2017), "The True History of Ancient Times" (2018), "Hot Story. The Incredible Adventures of Spice in the Human World" (2018), "The Drink of Change. How Coffee Created the Modern World" (2018), "The Golden Fleece. A History Tangled in Myths" (2019), "Interesting Facts from Ancient History" (2019). 

Number of pages: 208